Akademik

Lycoperdales

noun

small order of basidiomycetous fungi having fleshy often globose fruiting bodies; includes puffballs and earthstars

• Syn: ↑order Lycoperdales

• Hypernyms: ↑fungus order

• Member Holonyms: ↑Gasteromycetes, ↑class Gasteromycetes, ↑Gastromycetes, ↑class Gastromycetes

• Member Meronyms: ↑Lycoperdaceae, ↑family Lycoperdaceae, ↑Geastraceae, ↑family Geastraceae

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\\-ā(ˌ)lēz\ noun plural

Usage: capitalized

Etymology: New Latin, from Lycoperdon, genus of fungi + -ales

: a small order of basidiomycetes comprising the puffballs, earthstars, and sometimes a few other closely related fungi and having a fleshy often globose fruiting body filled at maturity with a mass of dustlike spores

Useful english dictionary. 2012.