a. [f. fungi- FUNGUS + -FORM. Cf. F. fongiforme.] Having the form of a fungus; having a termination resembling the head of a mushroom. Said esp. of papillæ on the tongue.
1823. Phillips, Mineral, p. lxxxviii. Fungiform, certain substances … are occasionally met with having a termination similar to the head of a fungus; whence they are said to be fungiform.
1831. R. Knox, Cloquet’s Anat., 589. Fungiform Papillæ. Their number is indeterminate.
1869. trans. Figuier’s Ocean World, iv. 83. Happalimus (Lamouroux).—Mass fungiform, pedicillate below, expanding conically, with a central pit above; surface porous and irregularly excavated.
1881. Mivart, Cat, 172. The fungiform papillæ are much smaller and more numerous than the circumvallate ones.
