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What does puffball mean?
WordNet
NounPlural: puffballs |
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| puffball - any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature | ||
| true puffball | ||
| fungus an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia | ||
| family lycoperdaceae, lycoperdaceae a fungus family belonging to the order Lycoperdales; includes puffballs | ||
| puffball - any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles | ||
| earthball, false truffle, hard-skinned puffball | ||
| fungus an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia | ||
| genus scleroderma, scleroderma genus of poisonous fungi having hard-skinned fruiting bodies: false 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 | ||
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Wiktionary 
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- puffball (n.)
A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.
Part of speech
🔤- puffball, noun, singular of puffballs.
