water mold

noun

: any of various fungi of water or moist soils

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web That sounds like one of the water mold funguses. —

Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 26 Nov. 2020 This is a water mold that spreads below ground by root contacts and swimming spores in soil water. —

oregonlive, 26 Feb. 2022 It’s a water mold fungus that splashes on the stems during rainstorms and careless irrigation. —

Neil Sperry, San Antonio Express-News, 2 July 2021 These include ganoderma applanatum, large bracket mushrooms that cause wood decay; armillaria, a fungal root-rot; phytophthora, a destructive water mold and hypoxylon, a fast-growing fungal canker. —

Juhi Varma, Houston Chronicle, 28 Sep. 2020 The pathogen was eventually identified as Phytophthora ramorum, a water mold that requires extended cool, moist conditions to best spread. —

Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2019

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