calvatia

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsgenus Calvatia

   Broaderfungus genus

   Part ofLycoperdaceae

Other forms of calvatia

plural

calvatias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about calvatia

What does calvatia mean?

calvatia means "genus of puffballs having outer casings whose upper parts break at maturity into angular pieces to expose the spores".

How many syllables are in calvatia?

calvatia has 4 syllables: cal-va-ti-a. The stress falls on "va".

What is another word for calvatia?

Close synonyms include genus Calvatia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is calvatia a common word?

calvatia is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.