Meaning of witches' butter | Babel Free

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1. Any of several gelatinous fungi which are generally yellowish (resembling globs of butter) or black (resembling black butter), including those of species:
   uncountable, usually
2. Tremella mesenterica, a yellow, gelatinous fungus (yellow brain fungus, golden jelly fungus).
   uncountable, usually
3. Dacrymyces, a genus of yellow jelly fungus often confused with Tremella.
   uncountable, usually
4. Dacrymyces chrysospermus (orange witch's butter).
   uncountable, usually
5. Exidia nigricans, a black, gelatinous fungus.
   uncountable, usually
6. Exidia glandulosa (black witch's butter).
   uncountable, usually
7. A yellow slime mold (Fuligo septica).
   uncountable, usually
8. Certain species of Nostoc of blue-green algae, especially Nostoc commune, that form a brownish gelatinous mass when wet.
   uncountable, usually

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