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		mrob on Sept 24, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plastic-Eating Mushrooms (2021) The hyphen makes it unambiguous that "plastic-eating" modifies "mushrooms". Without the hyphen it could refer to some hypothetical type of plastic that eats mushrooms. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compound_modifier

bawolff on Sept 24, 2022 [–]

I think it was pretty clear from context which was meant.

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