Term: scleroderma bovista: 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
Broader: earthball: any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Unrelated: centrospermae: used in former classification systems; approximately synonymous with order Caryophyllales
Broader: earthball: any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Unrelated: parameter: a quantity (such as the mean or variance) that characterizes a statistical population and that can be estimated by calculations from sample data
Broader: earthball: any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Unrelated: provider: someone who provides the means for subsistence
Broader: earthball: any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Unrelated: atomic number: the order of an element in Mendeleyev's table of the elements; equal to the number of protons in the nucleus or electrons in the neutral state of an atom of an element
Broader: earthball: any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Unrelated: fence-sitter: a person who won't take sides in a controversy
Broader: earthball: any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Unrelated: blue sage: blue-flowered sage of dry prairies of the eastern United States
Broader: earthball: any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Unrelated: humbug: communication (written or spoken) intended to deceive
Broader: earthball: any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Unrelated: drive: hitting a golf ball off of a tee with a driver
Broader: earthball: any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Unrelated: iron lung: respirator that produces alternations in air pressure in a chamber surrounding a patient's chest to force air into and out of the lungs thus providing artificial respiration
Broader: earthball: any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | Unrelated: force: (physics) the influence that produces a change in a physical quantity