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What is amadou?

What is amadou? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A spongy, flammable substance prepared from bracket fungi, formerly used as a styptic and as tinder.
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Most fly fishermen have heard of amadou, the fungus traditionally used to expel moisture from dry flies.
Thom says that Boletus laricis and Polyporus fomentarius yield the amadou of commerce.
The driver, amadou Diallo, was a courtly African immigrant who made it a point to wear a tie as he worked.
Its thick spongy stem, being reduced to charcoal, takes fire like amadou.
He fought anti-Semitism, hated racism, blessed the mother of Amadou Diallo, an unarmed African shot dead by New York city police.
By late afternoon, ministerial adviser Amadou Sangho told the French television station BFMTV that no more hostages were being held.

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