GEASTRUM CORONATUM

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 I. (noun) 

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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

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Nouns denoting plants

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)

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