Usage examples (3)

• Plant experts at Purdue University have confirmed the presence of a damaging, funguslike tomato disease called late blight in Indiana near the Kentucky line.
• The timing corresponds with the formation of spores in a funguslike pathogen that attacks the plant and results in a condition known as downy mildew disease.
• Researchers have shown that, when grown on a map of Japan, the gelatinous, funguslike organism connects points of interest in a pattern similar to Tokyo's train network.