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means A shelf-like orange and yellow mushroom (Laetiporus species) that grows in overlapping clusters on tree trunks, prized by foragers because its texture and flavor really do resemble cooked chicken.

from Nothing fancier than plain description: it earned its name the honest way, by tasting like poultry to generations of mushroom hunters, and 'chicken of the woods' spread as a common name alongside the stodgier scientific label Laetiporus, itself from Latin roots meaning roughly 'bright pore' or 'shining pore,' a nod to its vivid, porous underside rather than its taste.