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bracket fungus en · NOUN

Meanings

1. Any of various fungi of the family Polyporaceae, whose fruiting bodies form on trees and resemble shelves or brackets.
   • 2019, Katie Scott, Ester Gaya (editors), Fungarium, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Bonnier Books (Big Picture Press), While most mushrooms produce their spores inside gills, bracket fungi (or polypores) form sporing bodies with pores or tubes on their underside.
   • One class, bracket fungus, may be used for decorative purposes. Pictures may be drawn on its flat surface. The bracket fungus is found most often in the shape of a semicircular bracket, varying in size from 1 in. to 2 ft. in diameter and attached to dead stumps and fallen logs—beech-trees particularly. 1921 February, Anthony E. Zipprich, “Drawing on Fungus-a Novel and Pleasing Art”, in Popular Science, volume 98, number 2, Modern Publishing Company, page 128:
   • Some bracket fungi can utilize most of the wood, and because they leave it white, spongy, and fibrous are called "white rots." 1994, Marcia Bonta, Appalachian Autumn, University of Pittsburgh Press, page 160:

Forms

Meronyms

conk

Synonyms

polypore · shelf fungus

Translations (17)

sq bullendër (fungus of the family Polyporaceae) · cmn 多孔菌 (fungus of the family Polyporaceae) · pt poliporo (fungus of the family Polyporaceae) · tr katranköpüğü (fungus of the family Polyporaceae) · ga bracfhungas (fungus of the family Polyporaceae) · es poliporo (fungus of the family Polyporaceae) · sv ticka (fungus of the family Polyporaceae) · cs choroš (fungus of the family Polyporaceae) · et torik (fungus of the family Polyporaceae) · as কাঠফুলা (fungus of the family Polyporaceae) · ru трутови́к (fungus of the family Polyporaceae) · hy աբեթասունկ (fungus of the family Polyporaceae) · ota قطران كوپوكی (fungus of the family Polyporaceae) · hu likacsosgomba (fungus of the family Polyporaceae) · izh kääpä (fungus of the family Polyporaceae) · fi kääpä (fungus of the family Polyporaceae) · pl huba (fungus of the family Polyporaceae)