fungi

Pronunciation: /ˈfʌnd͡ʒaɪ/

The English word “fungi” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

Spongy, abnormal growth, as granulation tissue formed in a wound.
A style of folk and popular music from the Virgin Islands, traditionally performed by bands consisting of banjo, guitar, ukulele, and washboard with various percussion instruments on rhythm.

Borrowed from Latin fungī, from fungus + -ī (suffix forming the nominative or vocative plurals of most second-declension nouns ending in -us).

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