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fungia
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
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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