bracket fungusn. any fungus which grows on trunks of trees forming a bracket-like projection.
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1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl.Bracket fungus.
1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 366/2Bracket-fungi. The term ‘bracket’ has been given to those hard, woody fungi that grow on trees or timber in the form of semicircular brackets.