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SCLERODERMA FLAVIDIUM
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I. (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
Synonyms:
Scleroderma flavidium; star earthball
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Hypernyms ("Scleroderma flavidium" 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 flavidium" is a member of...):
genus Scleroderma; Scleroderma (genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles)