fungiform in English
adjective
1
having the shape of or resembling a fungus or mushroom.
Lamellae within the inner exocuticle are tangential to the cuticular surface but become undulose beneath each fungiform structure, creating a surface of small, equally-spaced domes in dorsal view.
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1. It's for the fungiform papillae.
2. In mammals, four different types of tongue papillae (fungiform, Circumvallate, foliate and filiform) can be found on the dorsal surface (Emura et al., 2006), but the structure of the tongue reveal a variability of morphological features related to the type of food, habit, and taxonomy (Jackowiak & Godinicki, 2005; Okada & Schraufnagel, 2005).