dead man's fingers
plural noun
1
- a European colonial soft coral which has spongy lobes stiffened by calcareous spines. When found washed up on the beach it is said to resemble the fingers from a corpse.腐指软珊瑚。
1.1
- Alcyonium digitatum, order Alcyonacea.拉丁名Alcyonium digitatum,软珊瑚目（即海鸡冠目）。
2
- a fungus that produces clumps of dull black, irregular, finger-like fruiting bodies at the bases of dead tree stumps in both Eurasia and North America多形炭角菌。
2.1
- Xylaria polymorpha, family Xylariaceae, subdivision Ascomycotina.拉丁名Xylaria polymorpha,炭角菌科, 子囊菌亚门。
3
- informal the finger-like divisions of a lobster's or crab's gills〈非正式〉（龙虾或螃蟹的）鳃。