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dead'-man's fin'gers
Pronunciation: (ded'manz", -munz), [key]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.
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