Fungus
Crossword Clue and Answers

Crossword Answers

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BUG
A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

IVY
Old World vine with lobed evergreen leaves and black berrylike fruits

PEA
The fruit or seed of a pea plant

ROT
Unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false statements)

WEN
A common cyst of the skin; filled with fatty matter (sebum) that is secreted by a sebaceous gland that has been blocked

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BEAN
Any of various seeds or fruits that are beans or resemble beans

CORN
Something sentimental or trite; "that movie was pure corn"

CYST
A small anatomically normal sac or bladderlike structure (especially one containing fluid)

FERN
Any of numerous flowerless and seedless vascular plants having true roots from a rhizome and fronds that uncurl upward; reproduce by spores

GERM
A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

HERB
Aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualities

KELP
Large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds

MOLD
Container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens

MOLE
Small velvety-furred burrowing mammal having small eyes and fossorial forefeet

MOSS
Tiny leafy-stemmed flowerless plants

MOTH
Typically crepuscular or nocturnal insect having a stout body and feathery or hairlike antennae

MUST
A necessary or essential thing; "seat belts are an absolute must"

PEST
A persistently annoying person

RUST
A plant disease that produces a reddish-brown discoloration of leaves and stems; caused by various rust fungi

SMUT
Creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire

VINE
A plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface

WART
(pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus

WEED
Street names for marijuana

WORM
Any of numerous relatively small elongated soft-bodied animals especially of the phyla Annelida and Chaetognatha and Nematoda and Nemertea and Platyhelminthes; also many insect larvae

WORT
Usually used in combination: `liverwort'; `milkwort'; `whorlywort'

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ALGAE
Primitive chlorophyll-containing mainly aquatic eukaryotic organisms lacking true stems and roots and leaves

BLAST
A very long fly ball

DICOT
Flowering plant with two cotyledons; the stem grows by deposit on its outside

ERGOT
A fungus that infects various cereal plants forming compact black masses of branching filaments that replace many grains of the plant; source of medicinally important alkaloids and of lysergic acid

LIANA
A woody climbing usually tropical plant

MOLDS

NEVUS
A blemish on the skin that is formed before birth

PLANT
(botany) a living organism lacking the power of locomotion

PULSE
The rhythmic contraction and expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart; "he could feel the beat of her heart"

SPORE
A small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion; "a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes"

TINEA
Type genus of the Tineidae: clothes moths

TUMOR
An abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose

VETCH
Any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants

VIRUS
(virology) ultramicroscopic infectious agent that replicates itself only within cells of living hosts; many are pathogenic; a piece of nucleic acid (DNA or RNA) wrapped in a thin coat of protein

WRACK
Growth of marine vegetation especially of the large forms such as rockweeds and kelp

YEAST
Any of various single-celled fungi that reproduce asexually by budding or division

MOULD
Container into which liquid is poured to create a given shape when it hardens

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MILDEW
A fungus that produces a superficial (usually white) growth on organic matter

LICHEN
Any thallophytic plant of the division Lichenes; occur as crusty patches or bushy growths on tree trunks or rocks or bare ground etc.

AGARIC
A saprophytic fungus of the order Agaricales having an umbrellalike cap with gills on the underside

AEROBE
An organism (especially a bacterium) that requires air or free oxygen for life

AMEBIC
Pertaining to or resembling amoebae; "amoebic dysentery"

AMOEBA
Naked freshwater or marine or parasitic protozoa that form temporary pseudopods for feeding and locomotion

ANNUAL
(botany) a plant that completes its entire life cycle within the space of a year

BLIGHT
Any plant disease resulting in withering without rotting

CALLUS
(botany) an isolated thickening of tissue, especially a stiff protuberance on the lip of an orchid

CANCER
Type genus of the family Cancridae

CANKER
A pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of; "racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation"; "according to him, I was the canker in their midst"

COCCUS
Any spherical or nearly spherical bacteria

DRYROT
A crumbling and drying of timber or bulbs or potatoes or fruit caused by a fungus

EXOTIC
Being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world; "alien customs"; "exotic plants in a greenhouse"; "exotic cuisine"

FUNGUS
An organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia

GROWTH
The gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece"

LEGUME
An erect or climbing bean or pea plant of the family Leguminosae

MOULDY
Covered with or smelling of mold; "moldy bread"; "a moldy (or musty) odor"

TUMOUR
An abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose

VIBRIO
Curved rodlike motile bacterium

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AMANITA
Genus of widely distributed agarics that have white spores and are poisonous with few exceptions

BRACKEN
Large coarse fern often several feet high; essentially weed ferns; cosmopolitan

CLIMBER
An iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing

CREEPER
Any of various small insectivorous birds of the northern hemisphere that climb up a tree trunk supporting themselves on stiff tail feathers and their feet

CUTTING
The act of diluting something; "the cutting of whiskey with water"; "the thinning of paint with turpentine"

MICROBE
A minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium); the term is not in technical use

MONOCOT
A monocotyledonous flowering plant; the stem grows by deposits on its inside

MOULDER
Break down; "The bodies decomposed in the heat"

POLYCOT

SARCOMA
A usually malignant tumor arising from connective tissue (bone or muscle etc.); one of the four major types of cancer

SEAWEED
Plant growing in the sea, especially marine algae

TRUFFLE
Edible subterranean fungus of the genus Tuber

VERRUCA
(pathology) a firm abnormal elevated blemish on the skin; caused by a virus

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ANAEROBE
An organism (especially a bacterium) that does not require air or free oxygen to live

BACILLUS
Aerobic rod-shaped spore-producing bacterium; often occurring in chainlike formations; found primarily in soil

BACTERIA
(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants

BIENNIAL
(botany) a plant having a life cycle that normally takes two seasons from germination to death to complete; flowering biennials usually bloom and fruit in the second season

NEOPLASM
An abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose

PARASITE
An animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host

PATHOGEN
Any disease-producing agent (especially a virus or bacterium or other microorganism)

PROTOZOA
In some classifications considered a superphylum or a subkingdom; comprises flagellates; ciliates; sporozoans; amoebas; foraminifers

PUFFBALL
Any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature

REOVIRUS
Any of a group of non-arboviruses including the rotavirus causing infant enteritis

SEEDLING
Young plant or tree grown from a seed

TUCKAHOE
Perennial herb of the eastern United States having arrowhead-shaped leaves and an elongate pointed spathe and green berries

DEATHCAP
Extremely poisonous usually white fungus with a prominent cup-shaped base; differs from edible Agaricus only in its white gills

MUSHROOM
A large cloud of rubble and dust shaped like a mushroom and rising into the sky after an explosion (especially of a nuclear bomb)

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TOADSTOOL
Common name for an inedible or poisonous agaric (contrasting with the edible mushroom)

FLYAGARIC
Poisonous (but rarely fatal) woodland fungus having a scarlet cap with white warts and white gills

AMPHIBIAN
Cold-blooded vertebrate typically living on land but breeding in water; aquatic larvae undergo metamorphosis into adult form

BACTERIUM
(microbiology) single-celled or noncellular spherical or spiral or rod-shaped organisms lacking chlorophyll that reproduce by fission; important as pathogens and for biochemical properties; taxonomy is difficult; often considered to be plants

BREADMOLD
A mold of the genus Rhizopus

CALLOSITY
Devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness

CARCINOMA
Any malignant tumor derived from epithelial tissue; one of the four major types of cancer

ECHOVIRUS
Any of a group of viruses associated with various diseases including viral meningitis and mild respiratory disorders and diarrhea in newborn infants

EPHEMERAL
Anything short-lived, as an insect that lives only for a day in its winged form

EVERGREEN
A plant having foliage that persists and remains green throughout the year

FUNGOSITY