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Noun: white fungus
  1. A fungus that attacks living fish and tadpoles and spawn causing white fungus disease: a coating of white hyphae on especially peripheral parts (as fins)
    - Saprolegnia ferax

Derived forms: white fungi

Type of: fungus

Part of: genus Saprolegnia, Saprolegnia

Encyclopedia: White fungus