Definitions for puffballˈpʌfˌbɔl

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

puff•ballˈpʌfˌbɔl(n.)

  1. any of various globular stalkless fungi, of the genus Lycoperdon and allied genera, that emit a cloud of spores when pressed or broken.

    Category: Fungi

Origin of puffball:

1640–50

Princeton's WordNet

  1. puffball, true puffball(noun)

    any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature

  2. earthball, false truffle, puffball, hard-skinned puffball(noun)

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

Wiktionary

  1. puffball(Noun)

    Any of various fungi that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Puffball(noun)

    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


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