SCLERODERMA CITRINUM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Scleroderma citrinum mean? 

• SCLERODERMA CITRINUM (noun)
  The noun SCLERODERMA CITRINUM has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SCLERODERMA CITRINUM used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCLERODERMA CITRINUM (noun)

Sense 1

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

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Scleroderma aurantium; Scleroderma citrinum

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

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