1955, William Golding, Faber & Faber 2005, p. 142:
He had no hair on the front of his head at all so that the sweep of bone skin, daunting in its fungoid pallor, came right over above his ears.
A fungus, or some other organism closely resembling a fungus.
G. K. Chesterton
He found the suspicion correct which supposed the tree branched from one great root, like a candelabrum; the fork, though stained and slimy with green fungoids, was quite near the ground, and offered a first foothold.