Hen-of-the-woods definition

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  hen-of-the-woods \hen-of-the-woods\ n.
     A large grayish-brown edible fungus ({Polyporus frondosus})
     forming a mass of overlapping caps at the base of trees that
     somewhat resembles a hen.
  
     Syn: hen of the woods, {Polyporus frondosus}.


          [WordNet 1.5]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  hen-of-the-woods
       n : large grayish-brown edible fungus forming a mass of
           overlapping caps that somewhat resembles a hen at the
           base of trees [syn: {hen of the woods}, {Polyporus
           frondosus}, {Grifola frondosa}]

















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