dead man's fingers

Meanings

1. Any of several plants or other organisms with fleshy finger-like structures:
2. The fungus Xylaria polymorpha;
3. The soft coral Alcyonium digitatum;
4. The seaweed Codium fragile;
5. A shrub or small tree, Decaisnea insignis, with edible fingerlike pods;
6. The early purple orchid, Orchis mascula.
7. The fingerlike gills of a crab.