earthball

Other forms of earthball

plural

earthballs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about earthball

What does earthball mean?

earthball means "any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles".

How many syllables are in earthball?

earthball has 3 syllables: e-arth-ball. The stress falls on "e".

What is another word for earthball?

Close synonyms include false truffle, puffball, hard-skinned puffball. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is earthball a common word?

earthball is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.