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  1. noun
    any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
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  2. noun
    any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature

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  • mushroom mushrooms and related fleshy fungi (including toadstools, puffballs, morels, coral fungi, etc.)
  • gleba fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn
  • family tulostomataceae stalked puffballs
  • genus calvatia genus of puffballs having outer casings whose upper parts break at maturity into angular pieces to expose the spores
  • basidiomycotina comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi
  • subdivision basidiomycotina comprises fungi bearing the spores on a basidium; includes Gasteromycetes (puffballs) and Tiliomycetes comprising the orders Ustilaginales (smuts) and Uredinales (rusts) and Hymenomycetes (mushrooms, toadstools, agarics and bracket fungi); in some classification systems considered a division of kingdom Fungi
  • lycoperdales small order of basidiomycetous fungi having fleshy often globose fruiting bodies; includes puffballs and earthstars
  • class gastromycetes fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi
  • stinky squid a stinkhorn of genus Pseudocolus; the fruiting body first resembles a small puffball that soon splits open to form a stalk with tapering arms that arch and taper to a common point
  • gasteromycetes fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi
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