myceto- or (before a vowel) mycet-
combining form
fungus
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mycetophagous
Origin
from Greek mukēs fungus1887 tr. De Bary's Fungi, etc. 368These phenomena of deformation by Fungi may be termed *mycetogenetic metamorphosis.
Ibid. 369All these *mycetogenous deformations.
1856 Mayne Expos. Lex. ,Mycetologia,..a treatise or dissertation on the mushrooms: *mycetology.
1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 827/2Mycetology, or more commonly mycology, the science of fungi.
1906 J. B. Smith Explanation of Terms used in Entomology 86*Mycetophagous: feeding upon fungi.
1920 Amer. Naturalist LIV. 314Many of these mycetophagous insects undoubtedly show a very close association with certain species of fungi.
1946 C. T. Brues Insect Dietary v. 193Mycetophagous insects..are abundant.
1957 Snell & Dick Gloss. Mycology 101/1Mycetophagous. Fungivorous; eating fungi.
1974 Sci. Amer. Apr. 128/3Mycetophagous Breeding in the Australian Dung Beetle, Onthophagus Dunningi, G. F. Bornemissza.
1899 Sharp in Camb.Nat. Hist. , Insects ii. 463The larva of Mycetobia pallipes..gives rise..to an ordinary *Mycetophilid fly.
1880 W. Saville-Kent Infusoria I. 41The group of the Myxomycetes or *Mycetozoa.
1885 E. R. Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 832/1It indeed seems not at all improbable that..the Mycetozoa represent more closely than any other living forms the original ancestors of the whole organic world.
1881 T. Gill in SmithsonianRep. 414*Mycetozoans.
1888 Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 908The spore of a Mycetozoan is a minute spherical or oval body.
1885 E. R. Lankester in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 832/1The naked protoplasm of the *Mycetozoon's plasmodium.
myceto-
combining form
see mycet-
see mycet-