CALVATIA GIGANTEA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Huge edible puffball up to 2 feet diameter and 25 pounds in weight

Synonyms:

Calvatia gigantea; giant puffball

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Calvatia gigantea" is a kind of...):

puffball; true puffball (any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature)

Holonyms ("Calvatia gigantea" is a member of...):

Calvatia; genus Calvatia (genus of puffballs having outer casings whose upper parts break at maturity into angular pieces to expose the spores)

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