Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Gasteromycetes"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Gasteromycetes \Gas`te*ro*my*ce"tes\, n. pl. [NL., from Gr. ?
stomach + ? a mushroom.] (Bot.)
An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac
called the peridium, as in the puffballs.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Gasteromycetes
n : fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores
have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi
[syn: {Gasteromycetes}, {class Gasteromycetes}, {Gastromycetes},
{class Gastromycetes}]
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