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Definition of Hen-of-the-woods

1. Noun. Large greyish-brown edible fungus forming a mass of overlapping caps that somewhat resembles a hen at the base of trees.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hen-of-the-woods

Literary usage of Hen-of-the-woods

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Walden by Henry David Thoreau (1910)
"... clucking and calling to them like a hen, and in all her behavior proving herself the hen of the woods. The young suddenly disperse on your approach, ..."

2. Friends Intelligencer by Friends Intelligencer Association (1867)
"Let me sit down here behind this screen of ferns and briers, and bear this wild hen of the woods call together her brood. Have you observed at what an early ..."

3. Types of the Essay by Benjamin Alexander Heydrick (1921)
"... the woods in the rear to the front of my house, clucking and calling to them like a hen, and in all her behavior proving herself the hen of the woods. ..."

4. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"... clucking and calling to them like a hen, and in all her behavior proving herself the hen of the woods. The young suddenly disperse on your approach, ..."

5. American Prose (1607-1865) by Walter Cochrane Bronson (1916)
"... clucking and calling to them like a hen, and in all her behavior proving herself the hen of the woods. The young suddenly disperse on your approach, ..."

6. Thoreau's Walden by Henry David Thoreau, Raymond Macdonald Alden (1910)
"... and in all her behavior proving herself the hen of the woods. The young suddenly disperse on your approach, at a signal from the mother, ..."

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