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Thesaurus: fungia

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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  1. n. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they areusually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of amushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.