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Definition of Earthball
1. Noun. Any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles.
Group relationships: Genus Scleroderma, Scleroderma
Specialized synonyms: Scleroderma Aurantium, Scleroderma Citrinum, Scleroderma Flavidium, Star Earthball, Scleroderma Bovista, Smooth Earthball
Generic synonyms: Fungus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Earthball
Literary usage of Earthball
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Water-lilies and how to Grow Them: With Chapters on the Proper Making of by Henry Shoemaker Conard, Henri Hus (1907)
"Make a hole large enough to accommodate the earthball. Then put the plant in
position, pressing down the earth so that a close contact is made between the ..."
2. A Review of Dipterocarps: Taxonomy, Ecology and Siviculture by Simmathiri Appanah, Jennifer M. Turnbull (1998)
"The seedling or transplant is removed from the container (polythene bag) with
the earthball undamaged. If broken, the beneficial effect of planting ..."
3. The Nineteenth Century (1885)
"... he seldom cares about the real needs of his own country—he merely asks himself
whether he will find customers in any quarter of the earthball or not. ..."
4. The Nineteenth Century (1885)
"... works so great an attraction and so deep a meaning that the methods themselves
of describing the earthball have undergone of late a deep modification. ..."
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