| 单词 | cramp ball |
| 释义 | > as lemmascramp ball cramp ball n. (also in plural) (a) †a knar or spherical growth, esp. from an oak tree (obsolete rare); (b) a variety of inedible ascomycete fungus, Daldinia concentrica (family Xylariaceae), having a hard, spherical black fruiting body; also called King Alfred's cakes.So named on account of a fabled ability to ward off cramp when carried. ΚΠ 1904 South Eastern Naturalist p. xxiv The peculiar abortive ends, ‘knars’, frequently seen in the bark of beech, holly, and other trees, are occasionally carried by old men in the villages around Haslemere as an antidote for cramp! and are known as ‘cramp balls’. 1959 E. F. Linssen Beetles Brit. Isles 1st Ser. 40 On the dead wood of our Ash, Fraxinus excelsior, are often found the hard black balls—cramp balls—of the fungus Daldinia concentrica. 1967 W. P. K. Findlay Wayside & Woodland Fungi vii. 70 Daldinia concentrica: Cramp Balls... The hard, round, blackish fruit bodies of this fungus may be found at any time of the year on dead branches or trunks of ash trees. 2008 Financial Times 26 Apr. (Weekend Mag.) 39 Surround the cramp ball with honeysuckle bark, hold it and blow until you have flames. < as lemmas |
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