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amadou

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Amadou is a spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi . The species generally used is Fomes fomentarius (formerly Ungulina fomentaria or Polyporus fomentarius ), which in English is also called "horse's hoof fungus" or "tinder fungus". The ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi, formerly used as a styptic and as tinder.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Amadou \Am"a*dou\, n. [F. amadou tinder, prop. lure, bait, fr. amadouer to allure, caress, perh. fr. Icel. mata to feed, which is akin to E. meat.] A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus ( Boletus and Polyporus ) which grows on old trees; ...

Usage examples of amadou.

I had when I had made my original survey of the rooms, I lifted them from each drawer to see if there was not a steel, igniter, or syringe of amadou beneath them.

Matthieu Laensberg lay on the dusty mantelpiece amid gunflints, candle-ends, and bits of amadou.

Though as a styptic, it has now gone out of use, as tinder it is still an article of commerce and in Northern Europe has been much used by smokers, manufactured also into fusees, and used to be found here in tobacconists' shops under the name of Amadou or German tinder.