STAR EARTHBALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does star earthball mean? 

• STAR EARTHBALL (noun)
  The noun STAR EARTHBALL 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 umbel

  Familiarity information: STAR EARTHBALL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STAR EARTHBALL (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 ("star earthball" 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 ("star earthball" is a member of...):

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