Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Fungia"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Fungia \Fun"gi*a\, n. [NL., fr. L. fungus mushroom: cf. F.
fongie.] (Zo["o]l.)
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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Fungia
n : mushroom corals [syn: {Fungia}, {genus Fungia}]
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