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nounany of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
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nounany 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
- 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
- giant puffball huge edible puffball up to 2 feet diameter and 25 pounds in weight
- tulostomaceae stalked puffballs
- gasteromycetes fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi
- calvatia genus of puffballs having outer casings whose upper parts break at maturity into angular pieces to expose the spores
- order lycoperdales small order of basidiomycetous fungi having fleshy often globose fruiting bodies; includes puffballs and earthstars
- family lycoperdaceae a fungus family belonging to the order Lycoperdales; includes puffballs
- subclass homobasidiomycetes category used in some classification systems for various basidiomycetous fungi including e.g. mushrooms and puffballs which are usually placed in the classes Gasteromycetes and Hymenomycetes