HyperDic: star_earthball

English > 1 sense of the expression star earthball:
NOUNplantstar earthball, Scleroderma flavidiuman earthball with a smooth upper surface that is at first buried in sand
English > star earthball: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
MeaningAn 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.
SynonymScleroderma flavidium
Member ofScleroderma, genus Sclerodermagenus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies
Broaderearthball, false truffle, puffball, hard-skinned puffballAny of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles

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