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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.

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

A fossil coral resembling Fungia.

g the ground in whatever way it falls. -- Mushroom coral (Zoöl.), any coral of the genus Fungia. See Fungia. -- Mushroom spawn (Bot.), the mycelium, or primary filamentous growth, of the mushroom; also, cakes of earth and manure containing this growth, which are used for propagation of the mushroom.…

which extend between, and unite, the adjacent septa of certain corals, especially of the fungian corals.