SMOOTH EARTHBALL

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 I. (noun) 

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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

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Nouns denoting plants

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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