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WHAT DOES CRAMP BALL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

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Daldinia concentrica

The inedible fungus Daldinia concentrica is known by several common names, including King Alfred's Cake, cramp balls, and coal fungus. It can be found in North America and Europe, where it lives on dead and decaying wood, especially on felled ash trees. It is a common, widespread saprotroph. The fungus is ball-shaped, with a hard, friable, shiny black fruiting body 2 to 7 centimeters wide. It resembles a chunk of coal, which gives it several of its common names, including coal fungus and carbon balls. According to legend, King Alfred once hid out in a countryside homestead during war, and was put in charge of removing baking from the oven when it was done. He fell asleep and the cakes burned. Daldinia concentrica is said to resemble a cake left to this fate. The flesh of the fungus is purple, brown, or silvery-black inside, and is arranged in concentric layers. Each layer represents a season of reproduction. The asci are cylindrical and arranged inside the flask-shaped perithecium. When each ascus becomes engorged with fluid it extends outside the perithecium and releases spores. D.

Definition of cramp ball in the English dictionary

The definition of cramp ball in the dictionary is a hard round blackish ascomycetous fungus, Daldinia concentrica, characteristically found on the bark of ash trees and formerly carried to ward off cramp. The specific name refers to the concentric rings revealed if the fungus is sliced.

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WORDS THAT END LIKE CRAMP BALL

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Translation of «cramp ball» into 25 languages

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Translator English - Chinese

抽筋球
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

bola calambre
570 millions of speakers

English

cramp ball
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

ऐंठन गेंद
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الكرة اصابته بتمزق عضلي
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

судорога мяч
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

bola cãibra
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

চাকা বল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

crampe balle
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Bola kejam
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Krampf Ball
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

けいれんボール
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

쥐 공
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cramp ball
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

chuột rút bóng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

நொதி பந்து
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पेटका बॉल
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kramp topu
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

palla crampo
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

kurcze piłka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

судома м´яч
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

crampe minge
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

κράμπα μπάλα
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

kramp bal
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

kramp boll
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

krampe ball
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CRAMP BALL»

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The Woodland Heritage Manual
... Cramp-Ball Weevil Platyrhinus resinosus. Other fungal fruiting bodies, for example bracket fungi, found on ancient trees also support their own invertebrate communities. Some bracket fungi are long lived but even the more transient species ...
Ian D. Rotherham, Melvyn Jones, Lindy Smith, 2011
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An Essay on the Nature and Immutability of Truth ... The ...
... the human body in health, strength. swiftness, flexibility, and grace. In these respects, therefore they could hardly fail to excel the moderns, whose educaton and manners tend rather to enervate the body, , and cramp ball its faculties. And as ...
James Beattie, 1773
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Study Skills for Geography, Earth and Environmental Science ...
No houses, no houseplants. Q=KIA where Q = Discharge of water though the soil. and remember, Blewitt, Cramp Ball and Jelly Babies arefun guys to be with! them. Symbol Name Symbol Name Symbol Name Al Aluminium Fe. 280 Study Skills ...
Pauline Kneale, 2013
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William Desmond Taylor: A Dossier
The “Writers' Cramp” ball was held on December 1, 1921. Over 1200 people attended, including Zane Grey, Edgar Rice Burroughs and most of the noted authors then living in Southern California, plus the movie people. Taylor escorted Mabel ...
Bruce Long, 2003
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Study Skills for Geography Students: A Practical Guide 2nd ...
Phillips, R.1980 Grasses, Ferns, Mosses andLichens of Great Britain, Pan Books, London. Stace, C. 1997 New Flora of the British Isles (2nd edn), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. aand remember, Blewitt, Cramp Ball and Jelly Babies ...
Pauline E Kneale, 2014
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Oaks in the Urban Landscape: Selection, Care, and Preservation
... 173f, 176f look-alike species, 13, 14, 22 pathogens, 158f, 165f pruning guidelines, 103f species description, 7f, 31 Cottam, Walter, 44 cracks, trunk/ branch, 202 cramp ball (Annulohypoxylon thouarsianum), 168 crown rot ( Phytophthora spp.) ...
Laurence Raleigh Costello, Bruce W. Hagen, Katherine S. Jones, 2011
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Transactions of the Canadian Institute of Mining and ...
Rein- forced-concrete control chutes equipped with windlass operated 'Cramp' ball-and-chain gates are established at each level. Figure 18 gives the details of control gates. Entry to the raises, which are driven parallel to and 25 feet from the  ...
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Woodland ecology
... Phallus impudicus (Stinkhorn) Hard Structures on wood or trees Xylaria hy poxy Ion (Candlesnuff) Daldinla concentrica (Cramp Ball) Fruit body club shaped Clavaria sp (Fairy Clubs) Clavaria corniculata (Yellow branched) Clavaria rugosa  ...
Phyllis Mary Miles, Haydn Braddock Miles, 1968
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Who's who in Canada: An Illustrated Biographical Record of ...
Residence: Rothesay, N.B. DUNN, Ovy Cramp Ball, C.E. — Assistant to Chief Engineer. Central Region. Canadian National Railways. Toronto, March. 19 23. Born Quebec, May 13. 1862, son of William and Catherine Dunn. Educated: Private ...
Charles Whately Parker, Barnet M. Greene, 1924
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Harper's mushroom reference guide & check list
... (Lentaria byssiseda) Cottony Milk Cap (Lactarius deceptivus) Cow Fungus ( Leccinum scabrum) Cracked-cap Polypore (Phellinus rimosus) Cracked Inocybe (Inocybe rimosa) Cramp Balls (Caldinia concéntrica) Cramp Ball (Caldinia grandis) ...
Herbert H. Harper, 1985

2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CRAMP BALL»

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Test your nature knowledge with these 40 questions
18A cramp ball is (a) a badger dropping; (b) a wren's nest; (c) a bracket fungus? 19Which river fish moves fist-size stones around to make its ... «Irish Times, Dec 12»
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Ash dieback fungus could devastate endangered species
Cramp-ball fungus weevil (Platyrhinus resinosus) ... Their larvae develop inside the dark balls of the cramp ball fungus that grows on the dead ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Nov 12»

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