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Webster 1913 Edition

Lycoperdon

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Lyˊco-per′don

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Noun.
[NL., from Gr. [GREEK] wolf + [GREEK] to break wind.]
(Bot.)
A genus of fungi, remarkable for the great quantity of spores, forming a fine dust, which is thrown out like smoke when the plant is compressed or burst; puffball.

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