how to pronounce fungus

/ˈfʌŋ.ɡəs/

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fungus is pronounced in two syllables

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An example use of fungus in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… yeah there's a there's fungus in it have …”

meanings of fungus

noun:

A spongy, abnormal excrescence, such as excessive granulation tissue formed in a wound.
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.

fungus frequency in english - C2 level of CEFR

the word fungus occurs in english on average 2.9 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2 level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics fungus can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that fungus can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;