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Of or pertaining to missions; as, a missionary meeting; a missionary fund.

A growth of minute fungi of various kinds, esp. those of the great groups Hyphomycetes, and Physomycetes, forming on damp or decaying organic matter.

The largest of the three orders into which the Fungi Imperfecti are divided, including various forms.

Suffering or sensibility in a single organ or function. -- Mon`o*path"ic, a.

An edible fungus (Morchella esculenta), the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. It is used as food, and for flavoring sauces. [Written also moril.]

An edible fungus. Same as 1st Morel.

A climbing plant (Ipomoea purpurea) having handsome, funnel- shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated, sometimes pale blue. See Dextrorsal.

ny which treats of the tribal history of forms, in distinction from the tribal history of functions. Haeckel.

. & Scot.] Mort cloth, the pall spread over a coffin; black cloth indicative or mourning; funeral hangings. Carlyle. -- Mort stone, a large stone by the wayside on which the bearers rest a coffin. [Eng.] H. Taylor.

To destroy the organic texture and vital functions of; to produce gangrene in.

A bank; a fund. Mount of piety. See Mont de piété.

One who attends a funeral as a hired mourner. Mourners were provided to attend the funeral. L'Estrange.

A genus of minute fungi. The plants consist of slender threads with terminal globular sporangia; mold.

Any one of several species of small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and of allied genera; the killifishes; -- called also minnow. [Written also mummychog, mummachog.]

rms, and which sometimes extends to other insects. It is attended by the development of a fungus (provisionally called Botrytis bassiana). Also, the fungus itself.

An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich past…

A person employed by undertakers at a funeral.

The white threads or filamentous growth from which a mushroom or fungus is developed; the so-called mushroom spawn. -- My*ce"li*al, a.

Resembling a fungus.

Of or relating to mycology, or the fungi.