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GEASTRUM CORONATUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An earthstar with a bluish spore sac and a purplish brown gleba; at maturity the outer layer splits into rays that bend backward and elevate the spore sac
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Geastrum coronatum" is a kind of...):
earthstar (any fungus of the family Geastraceae; in form suggesting a puffball whose outer peridium splits into the shape of a star)