Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fungia \Fun"gi*a\, n. [NL., fr. L. fungus mushroom: cf. F.
   fongie.] (Zo["o]l.)
   A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they
   are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like
   the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in
   diameter.

Source : WordNet®

Fungia
     n : mushroom corals [syn: {genus Fungia}]