wood ear

See also: wood-ear and woodear

English

a wood ear
Auricularia mesenterica

Etymology

Calque of Chinese 木耳 (mù'ěr)

Noun

wood ear (usually uncountable, plural wood ears)

1. An edible fungus in the genus Auricularia, shaped like an ear and growing on wood.

Alternative forms

• woodear
• wood-ear
• wood ear fungus
• wood-ear fungus
• woodear fungus
• wood-ear mushroom
• woodear mushroom
• wood ear mushroom

 

Synonyms

• tree ear/tree-ear
• tree ear fungus/tree-ear fungus
• tree ear mushroom/tree-ear mushroom

 

Coordinate terms

• black fungus
• black mushroom
• tree jellyfish
• tree jellyfish fungus
• tree jellyfish mushroom
• wood jellyfish
• wood jellyfish fungus
• wood jellyfish mushroom

 

Translations

black fungus

• Afrikaans: judasoor
• Catalan: orella de Judes f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雲耳／云耳 (wan⁴ ji⁵)

  Mandarin: 木耳 (zh) (mù'ěr)

• Dutch: judasoor n
• Finnish: juudaksenkorva
• French: oreille de Judas (fr) f
• German: Judasohr (de) n
• Hungarian: júdásfüle
• Japanese: 木耳 (ja) (キクラゲ, kikurage)
• Korean: 목이버섯 (mogibeoseot)
• Laz: კამპარუჯი (ǩamp̌aruci)
• Lokono: barati-jike, duli-jike
• Portuguese: orelha-de-judas f
• Russian: иу́дино у́хо n (iúdino úxo)
• Spanish: oreja de Judas (es) f
• Vietnamese: mộc nhĩ (vi), mộc nhĩ đen, nấm mèo (vi)

Further reading

• “wood ear”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Auricularia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Auricularia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Auricularia on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Earwood