fungia

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun fungia has 1 sense

fungia(n = noun.animal) genus fungia - a genus comprising the usual mushroom corals; Array

is a kind of coelenterate genus

is a member of madreporaria, order madreporaria

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CIDE DICTIONARY

fungia, n. [NL., fr. L. fungus mushroom: cf. F. fongie.].

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. [1913 Webster]

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