| NOUN | plant | earthball, false truffle, puffball, hard-skinned puffball | any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles |
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| Meaning | Any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles. | |
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| Synonyms | false truffle, puffball, hard-skinned puffball | |
| Member of | Scleroderma, genus Scleroderma | genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies |
| Narrower | Scleroderma bovista, smooth earthball | An earthball with a peridium that is firm dry and smooth when young / young but developing cracks when mature |
| Scleroderma citrinum, Scleroderma aurantium | An earthball fungus that is a dingy brownish yellow and a dark purplish interior | |
| Scleroderma flavidium, star earthball | An earthball with a smooth upper surface that is at first buried in sand | |
| Broader | fungus | An organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter |
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