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SMOOTH EARTHBALL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
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
Synonyms:
Scleroderma bovista; smooth earthball
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("smooth earthball" 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 ("smooth earthball" is a member of...):
genus Scleroderma; Scleroderma (genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles)
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