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White fungus   /waɪt fˈəŋgəs/   Listen
White fungus

noun
1.
A fungus that attacks living fish and tadpoles and spawn causing white fungus disease: a coating of white hyphae on especially peripheral parts (as fins).  Synonym: Saprolegnia ferax.






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"White fungus" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the lock of the outside door he glanced round the place to which he had penetrated for the first time. It was of the same size as the shop overhead, but the walls were of stone, green with slime and feathery with a kind of ghastly white fungus. Overhead, from the wooden roof, which formed the floor of the shop, hung innumerable spider's webs thick with dust. The floor was of large flags cracked in many places, and between the chinks in moist corners sprouted sparse, colorless grass. In ...
— The Opal Serpent • Fergus Hume



Words linked to "White fungus" :   Saprolegnia, genus Saprolegnia, fungus



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