Jew's ear
noun
1- a common fungus with a brown rubbery cup-shaped fruiting body, growing on dead or dying trees in both Eurasia and North America木耳。
1.1
- Auricularia auricula-judae, family Auriculariaceae, class Hymenomycetes.拉丁名Auricularia auricula-judae, 木耳科, 层菌纲。
词源
mid 16th cent.: a mistranslation of medieval Latin auricula Judae 'Judas's ear', from its shape, and because it grows on the elder, which was said to be the tree from which Judas Iscariot hanged himself.