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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 wartsplay

  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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