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wood-ear

wood-ear is the alternative form of wood ear.

Meaning of wood ear

Noun

wood ear (usually uncountable, plural wood ears)

  1. (usually) An edible fungus in the genus Auricularia, shaped like an ear and growing on wood.
    Synonyms:
    tree ear fungus, tree-ear fungus, tree ear mushroom, tree-ear mushroom, tree ear, tree-ear

Forms of wood-ear

pluralwood-ears

Questions about wood-ear

What is wood-ear the alternative form of?
Wood-ear is the alternative form of wood ear.

Words near wood-ear in the dictionary

  1. wood-children
  2. wood-chip
  3. wood-chips
  4. wood-chuck
  5. wood-copper
  6. wood-ear
  7. wood-elf
  8. wood-elves
  9. wood-fired
  10. wood-hewer
  11. wood-hewers

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wood-ear (page history and authors); wood ear (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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