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A spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi, formerly used as a styptic and as tinder.
From French amadou (“tinder, properly lure, bait”), from amadouer (“to allure, caress”), perhaps from Icelandic mata (“to feed”), which is akin to English meat.
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