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FALSE TRUFFLE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles

Synonyms:

earthball; false truffle; hard-skinned puffball; puffball

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("false truffle" is a kind of...):

fungus (an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "false truffle"):

Scleroderma aurantium; Scleroderma citrinum (an earthball fungus that is a dingy brownish yellow and a dark purplish interior; the peridium is covered with a pattern of small warts)

Scleroderma flavidium; star earthball (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)

Scleroderma bovista; smooth earthball (an earthball with a peridium that is firm dry and smooth when young but developing cracks when mature; pale orange-yellow when young and reddish brown at maturity)

Holonyms ("false truffle" is a member of...):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various fungi of the family Rhizopogonaceae having subterranean fruiting bodies similar to the truffle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("false truffle" is a kind of...):

fungus (an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "false truffle"):

Rhizopogon idahoensis (a large whitish Rhizopogon that becomes greyish brown in maturity)

Truncocolumella citrina (a fungus with a round yellow to orange fruiting body that is found on the surface of the ground or partially buried; has a distinctive sterile column extending into the spore-bearing tissue)

Holonyms ("false truffle" is a member of...):

family Rhizopogonaceae; Rhizopogonaceae (a family of fungi of order Hymenogastrales having round subterranean sporophores)

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