Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus of gelatinous hymenomycetous fungi, typical of the order Tremellineæ, having a nonpapillate hymenium which surrounds the whole of the fungus. See fairy-butter.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A genus of gelatinous fungi found in moist grounds.

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  • noun Any fungus of the genus Tremella.

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  • noun fungi with yellowish gelatinous sporophores having convolutions resembling those of the brain

Etymologies

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From the genus name.

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Examples

  • In October, it launched Quaker Herbal Oatmeal with such flavors as wolfberry and tremella.

    Selling Health Food to China Laurie Burkitt 2010

  • In traditional Chinese medicine, tremella extract is also used as a cough syrup for treating chronic tracheitis and other cough-related conditions such as asthma, dry cough, and heat in the lungs.

    Forever Young M.D. Nicholas Perricone 2010

  • Among the ingredients the multinationals are using: wolfberry plants, chrysanthemum teas and tremella, a fungus commonly thought in China to help improve the skin, strengthen bones and control weight.

    Selling Health Food to China Laurie Burkitt 2010

  • Shirokikurage (tremella fuciformis), also called White Jelly is a fungus containing large quantities of glucuronoxylomannan, an acidic polysaccharide.

    Should you grow your own anti-viral mushrooms? Who's researching the anti-tumor properties of certa 2009

  • The flower called "tremella deliquescens", which bears fruit in the beginning of January, is known as "Sinte Goulds lampken" (St. Gudula's lantern).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • -- This is a very beautiful white tremella growing in woods on leaf mold close to the ground.

    Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886

  • As consumers become more health-conscious, Pepsi and some of its competitors in the global packaged food market are introducing foods that include traditional Chinese folk medicine ingredients like wolfberry plants, chrysanthemum teas and tremella.

    Healthy Foods Could Boost PepsiCo - TheStreet 2011

  • Herbal Oatmealin flavors such as wolfberry and tremella, a fungus considered in China to have therapeutic properties.

    Healthy Foods Could Boost PepsiCo - TheStreet 2011

  • All that could be deduced by fair reasoning would amount to this only, that the life of metals, as the power which effects and determines their comparative cohesion, ductility, &c., was yet lower on the scale than the Life which produces the first attempts of organization, in the almost shapeless tremella, or in such fungi as grow in the dark recesses of the mine.

    Hints towards the formation of a more comprehensive theory of life. Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Amit said that local ingredients that are perceived to be beneficial to health such as longan, tremella and sesame have had applications in baked goods, as consumers are acquainted with their benefits and can quickly embrace products containing them.

    AP-FoodTechnology RSS 2010

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