bracket fungus

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   a woody fungus that forms shelflike sporophores on tree trunks and wood structures

   Synonymsshelf fungus

   Broaderpolypore

Questions about bracket fungus

What does bracket fungus mean?

bracket fungus means "a woody fungus that forms shelflike sporophores on tree trunks and wood structures".

What is another word for bracket fungus?

Close synonyms include shelf fungus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bracket fungus a common word?

bracket 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.