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SCLERODERMA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles
Synonyms:
genus Scleroderma; Scleroderma
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Scleroderma" is a kind of...):
fungus genus (includes lichen genera)
Meronyms (members of "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 ("Scleroderma" is a member of...):
family Sclerodermataceae; Sclerodermataceae (a family of fungi or order Sclerodermatales with a single-layered peridium; includes earthballs)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("scleroderma" is a kind of...):
autoimmune disease; autoimmune disorder (any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scleroderma"):
morphea (localized scleroderma)
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