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SCLERODERMA AURANTIUM
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Scleroderma aurantium mean?
• SCLERODERMA AURANTIUM (noun)
The noun SCLERODERMA AURANTIUM has 1 sense:
1. an earthball fungus that is a dingy brownish yellow and a dark purplish interior; the peridium is covered with a pattern of small warts
Familiarity information: SCLERODERMA AURANTIUM used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• SCLERODERMA AURANTIUM (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An earthball fungus that is a dingy brownish yellow and a dark purplish interior; the peridium is covered with a pattern of small warts
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Scleroderma aurantium; Scleroderma citrinum
Hypernyms ("Scleroderma aurantium" is a kind of...):
earthball; false truffle; hard-skinned puffball; puffball (any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles)
Holonyms ("Scleroderma aurantium" is a member of...):
genus Scleroderma; Scleroderma (genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles)
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