fungicide

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I knew they were appreciating much more delicately and truly than I the sublime skeleton and the mighty fungoids of the dead Glastonbury.

From Alarms and Discursions by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

At any rate swamp and fenlands in England are always especially rich in gay grasses or gorgeous fungoids; and seem sometimes as glorious as a transformation scene; but also as unsubstantial.

From Alarms and Discursions by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

If he had known the effect the fungoids would have on them, he would have told them that too.

From The Mightiest Man by Fahy, Patrick

They are known as shelving or bracket fungi, or popularly as "fungoids" or "fungos."

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by Atkinson, George Francis

Nearly all that we call the works of nature have but grown like fungoids upon this original work of man; and our woods are mosses on the bones of a giant.

From A Short History of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)