earthstar
(noun) any fungus of the family Geastraceae; in form suggesting a puffball whose outer peridium splits into the shape of a star
Source: WordNet® 3.1
earthstar (plural earthstars)
A type of puffball mushroom, of genus Geastrum, whose surface splits open in a star-shaped form.
Source: Wiktionary
Earth"star`, n. (Bot.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
