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SCLERODERMA FLAVIDIUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Scleroderma flavidium mean? 

SCLERODERMA FLAVIDIUM (noun)
  The noun SCLERODERMA FLAVIDIUM has 1 sense:

1. 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 umbelplay

  Familiarity information: SCLERODERMA FLAVIDIUM used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SCLERODERMA FLAVIDIUM (noun)


Sense 1

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Scleroderma flavidium; star earthball

Hypernyms ("Scleroderma flavidium" 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 flavidium" is a member of...):

genus Scleroderma; Scleroderma (genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles)


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