SCLERODERMA

Pronunciation (US):

• SCLERODERMA (noun)
  The noun SCLERODERMA has 2 senses:

1. an autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin
2. genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles

  Familiarity information: SCLERODERMA used as a noun is rare.

• SCLERODERMA (noun)

Meaning:

An autoimmune disease that affects the blood vessels and connective tissue; fibrous connective tissue is deposited in the skin

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

dermatosclerosis; scleroderma

Hypernyms ("scleroderma" is a kind of...):

autoimmune disease; autoimmune disorder (any of a large group of diseases characterized by abnormal functioning of the immune system that causes your immune system to produce antibodies against your own tissues)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "scleroderma"):

morphea (localized scleroderma)

Meaning:

Genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false truffles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

genus Scleroderma; Scleroderma

Hypernyms ("Scleroderma" is a kind of...):

fungus genus (includes lichen genera)

Meronyms (members of "Scleroderma"):

earthball; false truffle; hard-skinned puffball; puffball (any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles)

Scleroderma aurantium; 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)

Scleroderma flavidium; star earthball (an earthball with a smooth upper surface that is at first buried in sand; the top of the fruiting body opens up to form segments like the ray of an umbel)

Scleroderma bovista; smooth earthball (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)

Holonyms ("Scleroderma" is a member of...):

family Sclerodermataceae; Sclerodermataceae (a family of fungi or order Sclerodermatales with a single-layered peridium; includes earthballs)