fungia Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a genus comprising the usual mushroom corals
    genus Fungia.

WordNet

Fun"gi*a noun
Etymology
NL., fr. L. fungus mushroom: cf. F. fongie.
Definitions
  1. (Zoöl.) 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.

Webster 1913