Usually means: Yellow, gelatinous fungus on wood.
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  1. witches'-butter: Merriam-Webster
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  3. witches' butter, witches' butter: Collins English Dictionary
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Definitions from Wiktionary (witches' butter)

noun:  Any of several gelatinous fungi which are generally yellowish (resembling globs of butter) or black (resembling black butter), including those of species:
noun:  Tremella mesenterica, a yellow, gelatinous fungus (yellow brain fungus, golden jelly fungus).
noun:  Dacrymyces, a genus of yellow jelly fungus often confused with Tremella.
noun:  Dacrymyces chrysospermus (orange witch's butter).
noun:  Exidia nigricans, a black, gelatinous fungus.
noun:  Exidia glandulosa (black witch's butter).
noun:  A yellow slime mold (Fuligo septica).
noun:  Certain species of Nostoc of blue-green algae, especially Nostoc commune, that form a brownish gelatinous mass when wet.


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