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chaga

The English word “chaga” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A parasitic fungus of trees, usually birch, found on the circumboreal region of the Northern hemisphere, Inonotus obliquus.
  2. The irregular conk of this fungus, used in East European folk medicine to treat a number of conditions.

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian ча́га (čága), Komi-Zyrian тшак (čak, “mushroom, growth”).

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