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[syn: Gasteromycetes, class Gasteromycetes, Gastromycetes, class Gastromycetes]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Gasteromycetes
n 1: fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores
have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi [syn:
Gasteromycetes, class Gasteromycetes, Gastromycetes,
class Gastromycetes]