1. Epithalamus â (âepiâ means upon) the most dorsal part of the. diencephalon; it forms a caplike covering over the thalamus. a. The smallest and oldest part of the diencephalon. b. Composed of: pineal body, habenular nuclei and the caudal. commissure.
The plural of life is lives (pronounced differently from the verb, which is lihvz). Specifically, the words life and lives are nouns. The pronunciation is (lyf) in the s â¦ ingular and (lyvz) in the plural.
The Plural of Fungus The plural of fungus is fungi or funguses. The world depends on fungi because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world. (E O Wilson) The discipline of biology devoted to the study of funguses is known as mycology. The noun fungus has a Latin root, which is the derivation of the plural fungi. Through common usage, funguses (which adheres to the standard rules for forming plurals) is also now acceptable. The table below shows the standard rules for forming the plurals of nouns in English.