A spongy substance made by drying certain bracket fungi and formerly used as an absorbent in medicine, as tinder, and for drying fishing flies.
Example sentencesExamples
- Most fly fishermen have heard of amadou, the fungus traditionally used to expel moisture from dry flies.
- The traditional method to prepare amadou as tinder is to fill a pot with the fungus and to add enough strong urine to cover it.
- From the early medieval period until the invention of the match a treated fungus product called amadou was widely used to speed the process.