dōng​chóng​xià​cǎo

caterpillar fungus

冬虫夏草 冬蟲夏草 dōng​chóng​xià​cǎo
caterpillar fungus
A type of fungus used in traditional Chinese medicine that grows within the larvae of insects during the winter and sprouts a stalk from the head in the summer.

Frequency

Written text
0.788 per million

Cross-References

Same as

Sources

Frequency data
BCC Corpus (BLCU)