earthstar Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun 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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Earth"star` noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.

Webster 1913