Gas·te·ro·my·ce·tes n. pl. Bot. An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.
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Gasteromycetes
n : fungi in which the hymenium is enclosed until after spores
have matured: puffballs; earth stars; stinkhorn fungi
[syn: class Gasteromycetes, Gastromycetes, class
Gastromycetes]