Definition of jew's-ear in English English dictionary
A kind of edible fungus growing on tree-trunks, formerly used for medicinal purposes
Over the hearth hang bunches of drying mushrooms, the thin, curling kind they call jew's-ears, which have grown on the elder trees since Judas hanged himself on one; this is the kind of lore he tells me, tempting my half-belief.
widely distributed edible fungus shaped like a human ear and growing on decaying wood
jew's-ear
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() A mistranslation of mediaeval Latin auricula Judae (“Judas's ear”), from its shape, and its occurrence on the tree on which Judas Iscariot was supposed to have hanged himself.