What's the difference between earthstar and puffball?
Earthstar
Definition:
(n.) A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores.
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Puffball
Definition:
(n.) A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Basidiomycetes, a complex and common group of fungi, which include mushrooms, rusts, smuts, brackets, and puffballs, have not been well studied.
(2) Pooled fractions, analyzed by skin test or direct RAST, contained allergenic components over a molecular weight range of 10,500 to 20,000 daltons for all puffball spores studied except for S. areolatum (greater than 70,000 daltons).
(3) I chronicle the finding of puffballs, always a source of glee; dinner parties, with lists of those who attended and what was cooked; illnesses, my own and those of others; and the deaths of friends.
(4) Invasive infection with fungi of the Basidiomycota (rusts, smuts, toadstools, mushrooms, and puffballs) is extremely rare.
(5) Inhalation of large quantities of spores from the puffball (lycoperdon), which has been widely used in folk medicine, can cause a respiratory disease with symptoms of pneumonia and widespread densities in the lungs.
(6) Set up as a giant chess game, it showcased a wide range of ideas, from girlish Edwardian tailored sailor jackets to 18th-century flower-embroidered jackets over candy-striped puffball skirts.
(7) Our results demonstrate that a combination of gel filtration, hydrophobic interaction chromatography, RAST-inhibition, and immunoprinting studies can be used to fractionate, characterize, and standardize spore allergen extracts of puffballs for diagnostic and therapeutic purpose.
(8) The new stage was tested using puffball spores mounted on a micropipette.
(9) Spore extracts from four common puffballs (Calvatia cyathiformis, Geaster saccatum, Pisolithus tinctorius, and Scleroderma areolatum) were fractionated by Sephadex G-75 gel filtration.
(10) From 12 September 1984 to June 1985 all is blank in my journal – there is nothing at all set down, not even a puffball – though by my page-count entries it seems I was writing at white-hot speed.