| 单词 | dead-mans-fingers |
| 释义 | dead man's fingers in British Englishnoun (functioning as singular) a soft coral, Alcyonium digitatum, with long finger-like polyps dead-man's fingers in American English (ˈdedˌmænz, -mənz) noun any of various fungi, sponges, plant roots, animal parts, etc., having fingerlike projections and a pale or dull color, as the gray-black woodland fungus Xylaria polymorpha or the whitish spongy gills of a food crab Word origin [1595–1605]This word is first recorded in the period 1595–1605. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: Creole, condensation, domain, posture, slurDefinition of 'dead man's fingers' |
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