Definition of Lycoperdaceae

1. Noun. A fungus family belonging to the order Lycoperdales; includes puffballs.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Lycoperdaceae

Lycaenidae
Lycaeon
Lycaon pictus
Lychins chalcedonica
Lychins floscuculi
Lychnis alba
Lychnis coronaria
Lychnis dioica
Lychnis flos-cuculi
Lycia
Lycian
Lycium
Lycium barbarum
Lycium carolinianum
Lycium halimifolium
Lycoperdaceae
Lycoperdales
Lycopersicon
Lycopersicon esculentum
Lycopersicon esculentum cerasiforme
Lycopersicum
Lycophyta
Lycopodiaceae
Lycopodiales
Lycopodiate
Lycopodineae
Lycopodium alopecuroides
Lycopodium alpinum
Lycopodium clavitum
Lycopodium complanatum

Literary usage of Lycoperdaceae

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

1. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"... development of the basidia at once separates it from the lycoperdaceae, and Schroeter proposes to place it in a new group of the Gasteromycetes, ..."

2. Annals of Botany (1901)
"249. curvature of roots (*), viii. 429 et seq. Lycium capense, pollination (*), v. 366. lycoperdaceae, general account, iv. ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Among the Puff-balls (lycoperdaceae) all the species when young and white inside are edible, that is, they are not poisonous. Some are better to the taste ..."

4. Studies of American Fungi: Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, Etc by George Francis Atkinson (1900)
"PUFF-BALLS: lycoperdaceae. This is not the place for a discussion of the different genera of the puff-balls, etc., but it might be well to say that in ..."

5. Handbook of Learned Societies and Institutions: America by James David Thompson (1908)
"The lycoperdaceae of Australia, New Zealand, and neighboring islands. By CG Lloyd. These bulletins are also numbered in sub-series: no. i, 2, 6, ..."

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