Puffball

['pʌf'bɔl]

Definition

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

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Definition

(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.

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