polyporus frondosus

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   large greyish-brown edible fungus forming a mass of overlapping caps that somewhat resembles a hen at the base of trees

   Synonymshen-of-the-woodshen of the woodsGrifola frondosa

   Broaderfungus

   Part ofPolyporus

Questions about polyporus frondosus

What does polyporus frondosus mean?

polyporus frondosus means "large greyish-brown edible fungus forming a mass of overlapping caps that somewhat resembles a hen at the base of trees".

What is another word for polyporus frondosus?

Close synonyms include hen-of-the-woods, hen of the woods, Grifola frondosa. 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 polyporus frondosus a common word?

polyporus frondosus 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.