Mildew vs Fungus - What's the difference?
mildew | fungus |
A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.
To taint with mildew.
* 1605 , , (William Shakespeare), act 3 scene 4
To become tainted with mildew.
* 1851 ,
Any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular.
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As nouns the difference between mildew and fungus
is that mildew is a growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances while fungus is any member of the kingdom Fungi; a eukaryotic organism typically having chitin cell walls but no chlorophyll or plastids. Fungi may be unicellular or multicellular.As a verb mildew
is to taint with mildew.mildew
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Noun
(-)See also
* mould, moldVerb
(en verb)- He mildews the white wheat.
- His bald purplish head now looked for all the world like a mildewed skull.
fungus
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(wikipedia fungus)Noun
(en-noun)Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=Plastics are energy-rich substances, which is why many of them burn so readily. Any organism that could unlock and use that energy would do well in the Anthropocene. Terrestrial bacteria and fungi which can manage this trick are already familiar to experts in the field.}}
