hard-skinned puffball

Questions about hard-skinned puffball

What does hard-skinned puffball mean?

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

What is another word for hard-skinned puffball?

Close synonyms include earthball, false truffle, 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 hard-skinned puffball a common word?

hard-skinned puffball is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.