Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
mycetoid .
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Examples
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The mycoids did something to force the trees 'growth and weaken their structure, giving the vast underground mycoid colonies plenty of rotting cellulose to feed on.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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The mycoid had in its own genetic library billions of years of accumulated experience in absorbing information from organisms of every kind: plant or animal, mycoid or bacterium.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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Besides his pastoral duties — social as well as spiritual — he had an allotted time for scholarship and study, and he devoted that time to the work of the mycoid research team.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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The mycoid sent long tendrils around the package, infiltrating its pores and cracks.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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No doubt they bore mycoid travelers, but what these clammy astronauts did in space, and whether this improbable arboreal rocketry was the result of natural selection, or of conscious genetic manipulation by the mycoids — or indeed some other alien — was as yet unclear.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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The second is that the intelligent alien is a vast subterranean mycoid — a fungus.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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Trepper, the mycoid project team leader, shook his head.
The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection Dozois, Gardner 2006
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