Bovista

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Translingual

Etymology

From German Bovist, from older vohenfist (literally “vixen's fart”), from Middle High German vohe (“vixen”) +‎ vist (“soft fart”),[1] from Old High German foha vist (“vixen fart”).

Proper noun

Bovista f

  1. A taxonomic genus within the family Agaricaceae – the true puffballs.

Hyponyms

References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1995) “Bofist m., Bovist m.”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 23rd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 123

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