SCLERODERMA AURANTIUM

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Meaning:

An earthball fungus that is a dingy brownish yellow and a dark purplish interior; the peridium is covered with a pattern of small warts

Synonyms:

Scleroderma aurantium; Scleroderma citrinum

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Nouns denoting plants

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

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