NOUN | plant | Scleroderma bovista, smooth earthball | an earthball with a peridium that is firm dry and smooth when young / young but developing cracks when mature |
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Meaning | An earthball with a peridium that is firm dry and smooth when young / young but developing cracks when mature; pale orange-yellow when young / young and reddish brown at maturity. | |
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Synonym | smooth earthball | |
Member of | Scleroderma, genus Scleroderma | genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies |
Broader | 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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