Fungia

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fungia \Fun"gi*a\, n. [NL., fr. L. fungus mushroom: cf. F.
     fongie.] (Zool.)
     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.


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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Fungia
       n : mushroom corals [syn: {genus Fungia}]