amadou

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None of the fleshy fungi have long lives USES Besides the uses of fungi as scavengers of creation, there are some which have a commercial value and yield an article called “amadou.” This is a French word, used for a sort of tinder or touch-wood, an inflammable substance which is prepared from a fungus,[1] Boletus igniarius, and grows upon the cherry, ash and other trees.

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  1. A soft spongy substance, consisting of the more solid portion of a fungus (Polyporus fomentarius and other species found growing on forest-trees), steeped in a solution of saltpeter. Amadou has been successfully employed in surgery as a styptic, and in the form of punk it is used as a port-fire (which see). Also called black-match, pyrotechnical sponge, and German tinder.

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  • I suppose, if the datum has anywhere been admitted to French publications, the word "amadou" has been avoided, and "punk" used Or oneness of allness: scientific works and social registers: a Goldstein who can't get in as Goldstein, gets in as Jackson The fall of sulphur from the sky has been especially repulsive to the modern orthodoxy--largely because of its associations with the superstitions or principles of the preceding orthodoxy--stories of devils: sulphurous exhalations. —  The Book of the Damned
  • None of the fleshy fungi have long lives USES Besides the uses of fungi as scavengers of creation, there are some which have a commercial value and yield an article called “amadou.” This is a French word, used for a sort of tinder or touch-wood, an inflammable substance which is prepared from a fungus,[1] Boletus igniarius, and grows upon the cherry, ash and other trees. —  Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
  • "Welcome to Mali" (Because) is out now. www. amadou-mariam.com —  New Statesman
  • He tried at first to replace amadou, which he so unfortunately lacked, by another and analogous material. —  Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery
  • File Name: amadou-mariam-sabali. mp3 —  Hot Artists at Elbo.ws
 

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  1. French, from amadouer, coax, cajole, a word of disputed origin; perhaps from Danish made, feed (= Icelandic and Swedish mata, feed), from mad, food, = Swedish mat = Icelandic matr = English meat, food. Cf. Latin esca, (1) food, (2) bait, in Middle Latin also (3) tinder, later Italian esca, in same senses, = Spanish yesca, tinder, fuel, incitement, = Old French eche, esche, modern F. èche, aiche, bait; Italian adescare, bait, allure, entice, inveigle. Cf. also the English phrase to coax a fire (that does not burn readily).
 

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