King Alfred's cake

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n.
  1. 1.

    A fungus of species Daldinia concentrica.

    不可数

词源

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.

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