Crossword-Solution: LYCOPERDON
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lycoperdon | n. | A genus of fungi, remarkable for the great quantity of spores, forming a fine dust, which is thrown out like smoke when the plant is compressed or burst; puffball. |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with LYCOPERDON (5)
Next to it was a more decent denomination: Lycoperdon; but this was only so in appearance, for Greek roots sooner or later taught me that Lycoperdon means vesse-de-loup and nothing else.
Cooke, in his "Handbook of British Fungi," virtually concedes that the spores of the large puff-ball (_Lycoperdon giganteum_), as well as those of mushrooms, truffles, and other edible fungi (those with whose methods of propagation man is best acquainted), may be produced artificially.
The genus Lycoperdon belongs to this group, and it contains the puff-balls so common in this country.
The Puff Ball (_Lycoperdon giganteum bovista_) grows usually on the borders of fields, in orchards, or meadows, also on dry downs, and occasionally in gardens.
The ancients called the Truffle _lycoperdon_, because supposing it to spring from the dung of wolves.