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Jew's-ear

Jew's-ear is the alternative form of Jew's ear.

Meaning of Jew's ear

Noun

Jew's ear (plural Jew's ears)

  1. A kind of edible fungus (Auricularia auricula-judae), growing on tree-trunks, formerly used for medicinal purposes.
    • Hither also may be referr'd those multitudes and varieties of Mushroms, such as that, call'd Jews-ears, all sorts of gray and green Mosses, &c.1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographia, section XIX

Forms of Jew's-ear

pluralJew's-ears

Questions about Jew's-ear

What is Jew's-ear the alternative form of?
Jew's-ear is the alternative form of Jew's ear.

Words near Jew's-ear in the dictionary

  1. Jew's pitch
  2. Jew's slime
  3. Jew's stone
  4. Jew's trump
  5. Jew's trumps
  6. Jew's-ear
  7. Jew's-ears
  8. jew's-harp
  9. Jew's-harpist
  10. Jew's-harpists
  11. Jew's-harps

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