wood ear

English

a wood ear

Etymology

Calque of Chinese 木耳 (mù'ěr)

Noun

wood ear (usually uncountable, plural wood ears)

1. An edible fungus in the genus Auricularia, having a shape resembling an ear and which grow on wood.

Translations

black fungus

• Catalan: orella de Judes f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 雲耳／云耳 (wan⁴ ji⁵), 云耳 (wan⁴ ji⁵)

  Mandarin: 木耳 (zh) (mùěr)

• Dutch: judasoor n
• Finnish: juudaksenkorva
• French: oreille de Judas f
• German: Judasohr (de) n
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• Hungarian: júdásfüle
• Japanese: 木耳 (キクラゲ, kikurage)
• Korean: 목이버섯 (mogibeoseot)
• 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

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• Earwood