Word Meanings - FUNGIN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Related words: (words related to FUNGIN)

• FOUNDATION
  The lowest and supporting part or member of a wall, including the base course , under Base, n.) and footing courses; in a frame house, the whole substructure of masonry. 4. A donation or legacy appropriated to support a charitable institution,
• CELLULOSE
  Consisting of, or containing, cells.
• FORMERLY
  In time past, either in time immediately preceding or at any indefinite distance; of old; heretofore.
• FOUND
  imp. & p. p. of Find.
• FUNGIVOROUS
  Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
• FOUNDATIONER
  One who derives support from the funds or foundation of a college or school.
• FUNGIN
  A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms.
• FOUNDEROUS
  Difficult to travel; likely to trip one up; as, a founderous road. Burke.
• FUNGIBLES
  Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things. Burrill. (more info) fungi to discharge. "A barbarous term, supposed to have originated in the use of the words functionem
• FOUNDRESS
  A female founder; a woman who founds or establishes, or who endows with a fund.
• FOUNDERY
  See FOUNDRY
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• FUNGITE
  A fossil coral resembling Fungia.
• FOUNDLING
  A deserted or exposed infant; a child found without a parent or owner. Foundling hospital, a hospital for foundlings.
• FUNGIFORM
  Shaped like a fungus or mushroom. Fungiform papillæ , numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue.
• FUNGIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Fungidæ, a family of stony corals. -- n.
• CERTAINNESS
  Certainty.
• FUNGILLIFORM
  Shaped like a small fungus.
• GIVEN
  p. p. & a. from Give, v.
• FOUNDING
  The art of smelting and casting metals.
• CONFOUNDED
  1. Confused; perplexed. A cloudy and confounded philosopher. Cudworth. 2. Excessive; extreme; abominable. He was a most confounded tory. Swift. The tongue of that confounded woman. Sir. W. Scott.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• FOUNDER
  One who founds, establishes, and erects; one who lays a foundation; an author; one from whom anything originates; one who endows.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• PROFOUNDNESS
  The quality or state of being profound; profundity; depth. Hooker.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.
• PROFOUNDLY
  In a profound manner. Why sigh you so profoundly Shak.
• NITROCELLULOSE
  See GUN