fungus

英 ['f??g?s] 美['f??ɡ?s]

CET6+TEM4低頻詞常用詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?fungi;

1. sponge => pong- (首字母s脫落) => fungus.
2. 諧音“放菌絲”。

fungus 真菌

來自fungus, 真菌，蘑菇，詞源同sponge.

fungus: fungus: [16] Fungus was introduced into English in the early 16th century as a learned and more all-embracing alternative to mushroom. It was borrowed from Latin fungus, which probably came from Greek sphóngos ‘sponge’, source of English sponge.
=> sponge
fungus (n.): 1520s, "a mushroom," from Latin fungus "a mushroom, fungus;" used in English at first as a learned alternative to mushroom (funge was used in this sense late 14c.). The Latin word is believed to be cognate with (or derived from) Greek sphongos, the Attic form of spongos "sponge" (see sponge (n.)). "Probably a loanword from a non-IE language, borrowed independently into Greek, Latin and Armenian in a form *sphong- ...." [de Vaan]

1. If you have a tree stump, check it for fungus.: 要是有樹樁的話，檢查一下上面有沒有長(zhǎng)菌類。

3. So how do you kill a fungus without harming its host?: 問題在于,我們?nèi)绾尾拍茏龅讲粋λ拗髦粴⑺勒婢?呢 ?

4. 200,000 specimens of fungus are kept at the Komarov Botanical Institute.: 有20萬份菌類標(biāo)本被保存在科馬羅夫植物研究所。