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Definition of Gasteromycete
1. Noun. Any fungus of the class Gasteromycetes.
Specialized synonyms: Podaxaceae, Calostoma Lutescens, Calostoma Cinnabarina, Calostoma Ravenelii
Generic synonyms: Fungus
Group relationships: Class Gasteromycetes, Class Gastromycetes, Gasteromycetes, Gastromycetes
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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