Amadou
Amadou ({not transcribed}) , noun
[French amadou tinder, prop. lure, bait, from amadouer to allure, caress, perh. from Icelandic mata to feed, which is akin to English meat.]
A spongy, combustible substance, prepared from fungus (Boletus and Polyporus) which grows on old trees; German tinder; punk. It has been employed as a styptic by surgeons, but its common use is as tinder, for which purpose it is prepared by soaking it in a strong solution of niter. — Ure