Jew's ear

Definitions

A kind of edible fungus (Auricularia auricula-judae), growing on tree-trunks, formerly used for medicinal purposes.

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Examples

“Hither also may be referr'd those multitudes and varieties of Mushroms, such as that, call'd Jews-ears, all sorts of gray and green Mosses, &c.”

“Over the hearth hang⟳ bunches of drying mushrooms, the thin, curling kind they call⟳ jew's-ears, which have⟳ grown on the elder trees since Judas hanged himself on one; this is the kind of lore he tells me, tempting my half-belief.”

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