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GENUS SCLERODERMA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles

Synonyms:

genus Scleroderma; Scleroderma

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Scleroderma" is a kind of...):

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "genus Scleroderma"):

earthball; false truffle; hard-skinned puffball; puffball (any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles)

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 ("genus Scleroderma" is a member of...):

family Sclerodermataceae; Sclerodermataceae (a family of fungi or order Sclerodermatales with a single-layered peridium; includes earthballs)

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