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The act of burying with funeral rites. [Obs.] Knatchbull.

Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful. Jer. Taylor. What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. Longfellow. -- Fu*ne"re*al*ly, adv.

Lamentable; doleful. [R.] "Funest and direful deaths." Coleridge. A forerunner of something very funest. Evelyn.

Of or pertaining to fungi.

A salt of fungic acid. [Formerly written also fungiate.]

A blockhead; a dolt; a fool. [Obs.] Burton.

See Fungus.

A heterogenous group of fungi of which the complete life history is not known. Some undoubtedly represent the conidium stages of various Ascomycetes. The group is divided into the orders Sphæropsidales, Melanconiales, and Moniliales.

A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.

Of or pertaining to the Fungidæ, a family of stony corals. -- n.

Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things. Burrill.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, mushrooms; as, fungic acid.

Anything that kills fungi. -- Fun`gi*ci"dal, n.

Shaped like a fungus or mushroom. Fungiform papillæ (Anat.), numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue.

Shaped like a small fungus.

A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms.

A fossil coral resembling Fungia.

Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.

Like a fungus; fungous; spongy.

A mycologist.