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dead-mans fingers

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dead-man's fingers

  [ded-manz, -muhnz]
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–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.
Origin:
1595–1605
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