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means A substance that kills or stops the growth of fungi, used to treat infections from athlete's foot to yeast overgrowth.

from Straightforward Greek-plus-Latin assembly: 'anti-' (Greek, 'against') bolted onto 'fungus' (Latin for mushroom, likely from the Greek 'sphongos,' sponge — a nod to the spongy texture of some fungal growths). The word only needed to exist once science confirmed fungi were their own kingdom, separate from plants and bacteria — a 19th/20th-century realization that finally gave this quiet, creeping threat its own name, and its own antidote.