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witch's butter

witch's butter is the alternative form of witches' butter.

Meaning of witches' butter

Noun

witches' butter (usually uncountable, plural witches' butters)

  1. (usually) Tremella mesenterica, a yellow, gelatinous fungus (yellow brain fungus, golden jelly fungus).
  2. (usually) Dacrymyces, a genus of yellow jelly fungus often confused with Tremella.
  3. (usually) Dacrymyces chrysospermus (orange witch's butter).
  4. (usually) Exidia nigricans, a black, gelatinous fungus.
  5. (usually) Exidia glandulosa (black witch's butter).
  6. (usually) The yellow slime mold Fuligo septica.

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Forms of witch's butter

pluralwitch's butters

Questions about witch's butter

What is witch's butter the alternative form of?
Witch's butter is the alternative form of witches' butter.

Words near witch's butter in the dictionary

  1. witch's brews
  2. witch's bridle
  3. witch's bridles
  4. witch's broom
  5. witch's brooms
  6. witch's butter
  7. witch's butters
  8. witch's egg
  9. witch's eggs
  10. witch's fire
  11. witch's hair

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