GASTEROMYCETE

• GASTEROMYCETE (noun)
  The noun GASTEROMYCETE has 1 sense:

1. any fungus of the class Gasteromycetes

  Familiarity information: GASTEROMYCETE used as a noun is very rare.

• GASTEROMYCETE (noun)

Meaning:

Any fungus of the class Gasteromycetes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

gasteromycete; gastromycete

Hypernyms ("gasteromycete" is a kind of...):

fungus (a parasitic plant lacking chlorophyll and leaves and true stems and roots and reproducing by spores)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gasteromycete"):

Podaxaceae (a variety of gastromycete)

Calostoma lutescens (a gasteromycete with a leathery stalk and a fruiting body that is globose and has a pale yellow spore case)

Calostoma cinnabarina (a gasteromycete with a leathery stalk and a fruiting body this globose and has a red spore case)

Calostoma ravenelii (a gasteromycete with a leathery stalk and a fruiting body with a thin gelatinous spore case and elliptical spores)

Holonyms ("gasteromycete" is a member of...):

class Gasteromycetes; class Gastromycetes; Gasteromycetes; Gastromycetes (fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi)