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Earthstar

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Noun

1. earthstar

any fungus of the family Geastraceae; in form suggesting a puffball whose outer peridium splits into the shape of a star

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Earthstar

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noun
any of various basidiomycetous saprotrophic woodland fungi of the genus Geastrum, whose brown onion-shaped reproductive body splits into a star shape to release the spores

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Earthstar

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noun
any of a family (Geastracae) of puffball fungi, in which the outer wall of the spore fruit splits into a starlike form surrounding the spore sac

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Earthstar

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n.
Any of various mushrooms of the family Geastraceae, having a round spore case like that of a puffball with an outer covering that splits open in a starlike form.

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