Re: Weekly Vocab 6: to know
| From: | Tristan McLeay <kesuari@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, May 8, 2003, 9:12 |
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Andreas Johansson wrote:
>Incidentally, what is the difference 'tween "mushroom" and "fungus"?
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Mushrooms pass as food. I'm not sure how, but when you don't eat
mushrooms or olives, it severely limits the variety of pizzas you can
have. I call mushrooms fungi (the plural of fungus, normally pronounced
in these parts as /faNgai/) to reflect how much I love them.
Fungi includes toadstools, mushrooms, at least one kind of foot disease
and others besides.
Toadstools, which I'm guessing is the next question, are
mushroom-looking-like things that even those who pass mushrooms as food
won't eat. They're also what faries sit on. I've never seen a toad
sitting on one.
If I remember correctly, and I probably don't, fungus is a kingdom like
plant or animal. Mushrooms are merely a subset of them.
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Tristan <kesuari@...>
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