Is 'fungi' British and 'funguses' american, or is it the other way round?
2006-11-25 03:24:54 · 4 answers · asked by Harty H 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
If you look it up 'funguses' is also in the dictionary.
2006-11-25 03:57:20 · update #1
No such word as funguses. Singular fungus, plural fungi.
2006-11-25 03:28:32 · answer #1 · answered by Crash 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The same as cheese and mushrooms. No, wait, cheese is basically molded evaporated milk (yum, huh?) Let see, fungi reproduce with spores, bacterial by mitosis. Bacteria are single celled, fungi are multicelled. I'm not sure if fungi are still classified as plants or not (they were when I was in school, but that was before the advent of protozoa, which bacteria are). Animals live symbiotically with bacteria, but not with fungi. Do I get a cookie?
2016-05-23 01:21:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Funguses is not a word. Fungus is the singular while fungi is the plural.
2006-11-25 03:32:45 · answer #3 · answered by dennis 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
one is correct and one isn't
2006-11-25 03:27:43 · answer #4 · answered by Norman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋