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puffball |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Puffball \Puff"ball`\, n. (Bot.) 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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: puffball n 1: any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature [syn: {true puffball}] 2: any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean trufflelike fruiting bodies [syn: {earthball}, {false truffle}, {hard-skinned puffball}]
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