witches' butter (English, noun)
expansion: witches' butter (usually uncountable, plural witches' butters)
Senses:
glosses: Any of several gelatinous fungi which are generally yellowish (resembling globs of butter) or black (resembling black butter), including those of species:
Tremella mesenterica, a yellow, gelatinous fungus (yellow brain fungus, golden jelly fungus).
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glosses: Any of several gelatinous fungi which are generally yellowish (resembling globs of butter) or black (resembling black butter), including those of species:
Dacrymyces, a genus of yellow jelly fungus often confused with Tremella.
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glosses: Any of several gelatinous fungi which are generally yellowish (resembling globs of butter) or black (resembling black butter), including those of species:
Dacrymyces, a genus of yellow jelly fungus often confused with Tremella.
Dacrymyces chrysospermus (orange witch's butter).
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glosses: Any of several gelatinous fungi which are generally yellowish (resembling globs of butter) or black (resembling black butter), including those of species:
Exidia nigricans, a black, gelatinous fungus.
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glosses: Any of several gelatinous fungi which are generally yellowish (resembling globs of butter) or black (resembling black butter), including those of species:
Exidia glandulosa (black witch's butter).
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glosses: A yellow slime mold (Fuligo septica).
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glosses: Certain species of Nostoc of blue-green algae, especially Nostoc commune, that form a brownish gelatinous mass when wet.
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Forms:
form: witches' butters
tags: plural
form: witch's butter
tags: alternative