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ALL meanings of earthstar

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  • noun earthstar A brownish woodland fungus with a spherical spore-containing fruiting body surrounded by a fleshy star-shaped structure, found in both Eurasia and North America. 1
  • noun earthstar a fungus of the genus Geaster, having an outer covering that splits into the form of a star. 1
  • noun earthstar any of various bromeliads of the genus Cryptanthus, native to Brazil, having rosettes of stiff, prickly leaves. 1
  • noun earthstar A type of puffball mushroom, of genus Geastrum, whose surface splits open in a star-shaped form. 0
  • noun earthstar any of various basidiomycetous saprotrophic woodland fungi of the genus Geastrum, whose brown onion-shaped reproductive body splits into a star shape to release the spores 0
  • noun earthstar any of a family (Geastracae) of puffball fungi, in which the outer wall of the spore fruit splits into a starlike form surrounding the spore sac 0
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