Definitions for fomes

fomes fo·mes

Spelling: [foh-meez]
IPA: /ˈfoʊ miz/

Fomes is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 54 anagrams from letters in fomes (efmos).

Definitions for fomes

noun

  1. any agent, as clothing or bedding, that is capable of absorbing and transmitting the infecting organism of a disease.

Origin of fomes

1650-60; Latin fōmes kindling wood, tinder, akin to fōvēre to keep warm

Examples for fomes

Similar punk is sometimes formed in conifers from the mycelium of fomes pinicola.

Figure 15 illustrates one of these peculiar forms of Polyporus (fomes) applanatus.

This has been called by many authors in America fomes applanatus or Polyporus applanatus.

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