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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: any fungus of the family Geastraceae; in form suggesting a puffball whose outer peridium splits into the shape of a star

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1885 any of a genus (Geastrum) of globose basidiomycetous fungi with an outer peridium that splits into the shape of a star

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. any woodland fungus of the genus Geastrum, esp. G. triplex, with a spherical spore-containing fruit body surrounded by a fleshy star-shaped structure.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Earthstar Earth"star`, n. (Bot.) 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.