English Explanatory Dictionary

King Alfred's cake

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A fungus of species Daldinia concentrica.

Word forms

King Alfred's cake

Etymology

From the resemblance of the round, black fungus to the burned cakes in a legend according to which King Alfred, hiding out in a countryside homestead during war, was put in charge of some baking cakes and accidentally let them burn.

Synonyms

cramp balls coal fungus
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