HyperDic: genus_scleroderma

English > 1 sense of the expression genus Scleroderma:
NOUNplantgenus Scleroderma, Sclerodermagenus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies
English > genus Scleroderma: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaninggenus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles.
SynonymScleroderma
Member ofSclerodermataceae, family SclerodermataceaeA family of fungi or order Sclerodermatales with a single-layered peridium
MembersScleroderma bovista, smooth earthballAn earthball with a peridium that is firm dry and smooth when young / young but developing cracks when mature
Scleroderma citrinum, Scleroderma aurantiumAn earthball fungus that is a dingy brownish yellow and a dark purplish interior
Scleroderma flavidium, star earthballAn earthball with a smooth upper surface that is at first buried in sand
earthball, false truffle, puffball, hard-skinned puffballAny of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
Broaderfungus genusIncludes lichen genera
Spanishgenus scleroderma, scleroderma
Catalangenus scleroderma, scleroderma

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