chicken of the woods
noun phrase
variants
or chicken-of-the-woods
: an edible bracket fungus (Laetiporus sulphureus) of North America and Europe that forms thick, fleshy, shelflike fruiting bodies (as on tree trunks) which are usually bright orange above and sulfur yellow below
Realistically, however, a 56-pound chicken of the woods is old and tough. The fungus is only appetizing when it is young and tender, but even then, it is usually big.—Nina Rao
I've eaten chicken-of-the-woods, a bright orange fungus I knocked off a rotting log.—Tina Kelley
called also chicken mushroom, sulfur shelf
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