Scleroderma citrinum vs puffball

puffball vs Scleroderma citrinum

Scleroderma citrinum and puffball both are nouns.

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

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

Scleroderma citrinum: an earthball fungus that is a dingy brownish yellow and a dark purplish interior; the peridium is covered with a pattern of small warts
puffball: any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles

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

Scleroderma citrinum (noun)	puffball (noun)
an earthball fungus that is a dingy brownish yellow and a dark purplish interior; the peridium is covered with a pattern of small warts	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 citrinum and puffball

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