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Webster 1913 Edition
Gasteromycetes
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Gasˊte-ro-my-ce′tes
,Noun.
pl.
[NL., from Gr. [GREEK] stomach + [GREEK] a mushroom.]
(Bot.)
An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.
Definition 2024
Gasteromycetes
Gasteromycetes
Translingual
Proper noun
Gasteromycetes
- polyphyletic group of fungi (gasteromycetes) that produce spores inside their fruiting bodies, including puffballs, stinkhorns, bird's nest fungi or false truffles, formerly considered a class within the division Basidiomycota.
Hypernyms
- (group): Eukaryota - superkingdom; Fungi – kingdom; Dikarya - subkingdom; Basidiomycota – phylum; Agaricomycetes – class
Hyponyms
- BovistaWP WSp Commons, CalvatiaWP WSp Commons, ClathrusWP WSp Commons, CrucibulumWP WSp Commons, CyathusWP WSp Commons, HymenogasterWP WSp Commons, Lycoperdon, LysurusWP WSp Commons, MelanogasterWP WSp Commons, MutinusWP WSp Commons, Phallus, RhizopogonWP WSp Commons – genera
Translations
group of fungi
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