Usually means: Edible mushroom, grows near trees.
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  1. hen-of-the-woods, hen of the woods: Vocabulary.com
  2. hen-of-the-woods: Wordnik
  3. hen of the woods: Wiktionary
  4. hen of the woods: Infoplease Dictionary
  5. hen-of-the-woods, hen of the woods: Dictionary.com
  6. hen-of-the-woods, hen of the woods: Rhymezone
  7. hen-of-the-woods, hen of the woods: FreeDictionary.org
  8. hen-of-the-woods, hen of the woods: Mnemonic Dictionary
  9. hen-of-the-woods, hen of the woods: TheFreeDictionary.com
  10. hen of the woods: Merriam-Webster

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  1. hen-of-the-woods, hen of the woods: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  (mycology) An edible polypore mushroom, Grifola frondosa

Similar:
Grifola frondosa, hen-of-the-woods, polyporus frondosus, maitake, horse mushroom, horn of plenty, sheep polypore, snow morel, field mushroom, wood hedgehog, more...

Opposite:
rooster of plains, cock of heath, drake of moors

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Similar:
Grifola frondosa, hen-of-the-woods, polyporus frondosus, maitake, horse mushroom, horn of plenty, sheep polypore, snow morel, field mushroom, wood hedgehog, more...

Opposite:
rooster of plains, cock of heath, drake of moors



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