f 4 o 1 m 3 e 1 s 1
5 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
Meaning
noun genus of bracket fungi forming corky or woody perennial shelflike sporophores often of large size; includes some that cause destructive heartrot in trees
originFrom medical Latin fōmes (“fomite”), a figurative extension of its original sense of kindling, tinder, etc. Gradually supplanted in use by fomite, a mistaken backformation of its plural form fomites, from Latin fōmitēs.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0