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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A genus or form-genus of polyporoid fungi, which continues indefinitely, without fruiting, as a thick dense leathery sheet covering the wood upon which it lives.

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  • noun biology the felted stroma of various wood-destroying fungi

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