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Webster 1913 Edition

Gasteromycetes

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Gasˊte-ro-my-ce′tes

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Noun.

pl.

[NL., from Gr. [GREEK] stomach + [GREEK] a mushroom.]

(Bot.)

An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.