bird's-nest fungus

1. 1.

   any of various fungi of the family Nidulariaceae having a cup-shaped body containing several egg-shaped structure enclosing the spores

   Broaderfungus

   Part ofNidulariaceae

Questions about bird's-nest fungus

What does bird's-nest fungus mean?

bird's-nest fungus means "any of various fungi of the family Nidulariaceae having a cup-shaped body containing several egg-shaped structure enclosing the spores".

Is bird's-nest fungus a common word?

bird's-nest fungus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.