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dead man's finger(s
Also dead men's finger(s.
1. A local name for various species of Orchis, properly those with palmate tubers, as O. maculata and latifolia; in Shakes. prob. the Early Purple Orchis, O. mascula. Also applied to Arum maculatum, Lotus corniculatus, and Alopecurus pratensis. (Britten & Holland.)
1602Shakes. Ham. iv. vii. 173 Long Purples..our cold Maids doe Dead Mens Fingers call them. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. 193 Orchis latifolia. The root, from its shape, is sometimes called..Dead-men's-fingers.
2. The zoophyte Alcyonium digitatum: = next 1.
1860Dallas Nat. Hist. Anim. Kingd. 54. 1865 Gosse Year at Shore 73. 1872 Dana Corals 83.
3. The finger-like divisions of the branchiæ or gills in a lobster or crab.
1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) ix. xlv, In eating lobster—getting..half a dozen of the dead man's fingers into your mouth. |