NOUN | plant | star earthball, Scleroderma flavidium | an earthball with a smooth upper surface that is at first buried in sand |
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Meaning | An earthball with a smooth upper surface that is at first buried in sand; the top of the fruiting body opens up to form segments like the ray of an umbel. | |
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Synonym | Scleroderma flavidium | |
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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