Scleroderma bovista vs puffball

puffball vs Scleroderma bovista

Scleroderma bovista and puffball both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
Scleroderma bovista	Yes	No	No	No
puffball	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, puffball is a hypernym of Scleroderma bovista; that is, puffball is a word with a broader meaning than Scleroderma bovista:

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

Other hypernyms of Scleroderma bovista include earthball, false truffle, hard-skinned puffball.

Scleroderma bovista (noun)	puffball (noun)
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	any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature
	any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles

Difference between Scleroderma bovista and puffball

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