Definition of Gasteromycete

1. Noun. Any fungus of the class Gasteromycetes.


Definition of Gasteromycete

1. Noun. Any of the obsolete class Gasteromycetes of fungi. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gasteromycete

gast
gasted
gaster
gasteromycete (current term)
gasteromycetes
gasteropod
gasteropoda
gasteropodous
gasteropods
gasters
gastfull
gastight
gastightness
gastightnesses
gasting
gastness
gastnesses
gastornis

Literary usage of Gasteromycete

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical by Julius Sachs (1882)
"Part of a longitudinal section of a gasteromycete (Crucibulum vulgäre), showing the course of the hyphae : their interstices are filled with a watery jelly, ..."

2. The Popular Science Review: A Quarterly Miscellany of Entertaining and (1862)
"Hence the Hymenomycetes and gasteromycete* only appear when the wc.ither is peculiarly favourable, or after abundant rain-. ..."

3. The Essentials of Botany by Charles Edwin Bessey (1896)
"gasteromycete^E).— The plants of this order are saprophytes, whose spore-fruits Fio. 116.—Fruit of a Puff-ball. Natural size. ..."

4. The London Journal of Botany by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1843)
"After a due examination of the different parts of which this curious gasteromycete is composed, the author remarks that it is impossible to leave it in the ..."

5. Handbook to the City of Dublin and the Surrounding District by Grenville Arthur James Cole, R. Lloyd Praeger (1908)
"... of members of the genus Cortinarius, as well as that of the pink-spored Agarics and the woody or coriaceous genera. The occurrence of the gasteromycete ..."

6. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1890)
"The origin of the gasteromycete sporocarp from its mycelium appears to be without any sexual process, but by a process of direct growth and differentiation ..."

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