bracket fungus

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noun

the leathery, corky, or woody, shelflike basidiocarp of certain wood-rotting fungi that form on tree trunks, lumber, etc.; conk.

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Origin of bracket fungus

First recorded in 1895–1900

Words nearby bracket fungus

bracken, bracket, bracket clock, bracket creep, bracket foot, bracket fungus, bracketing, bracketology, brackets, bracket saw, Brackett series

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How to use bracket fungus in a sentence

Briefly, blister rust is an Asian fungus introduced from Europe to America around 1900.
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Even at the age bracket where men and women appear closest in frequency, there is nothing remotely close to masturbation parity.
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Or how leaf-cutter ants cultivate a specific type of fungus so precious it is carried by the queen when she starts a new colony.
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Do you fill out one bracket or different brackets for each pool?
ESPN’s Bracket Champion Shares His March Madness Secrets|Ben Teitelbaum|March 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST

I just go with that same bracket and I usually enter that into multiple pools.
ESPN’s Bracket Champion Shares His March Madness Secrets|Ben Teitelbaum|March 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Favus, tinea versicolor, and the various forms of ring-worm are caused by members of the fungus group.
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A lovely bracket of carved wood fixed to the wall held a cheap cuckoo-clock from Switzerland.
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Rather hard on politicians this, to bracket their patriotic endeavours with pitch-and-toss and alcoholic indulgence!
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 109, July 27, 1895|Various
Beside the font is a very quaint iron bracket-stand, painted blue and gold, "constructed to carry" two candles.
Notes and Queries, Number 196, July 30, 1853|Various
And please do not think when I thus seem to bracket myself with you, that I am wholly blinded with vanity.
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British Dictionary definitions for bracket fungus

bracket fungus

noun

any saprotroph or parasitic fungus of the basidiomycetous family Polyporaceae, growing as a shelflike mass (bracket) from tree trunks and producing spores in vertical tubes in the bracket

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Scientific definitions for bracket fungus

bracket fungus

[ brăk′ĭt ]

See shelf fungus.