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Nov 30, 2009
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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.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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