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Puffball

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Noun

1. puffball, true puffball

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

2. earthball, false truffle, hard-skinned puffball, puffball

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Puffball

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noun
any of various basidiomycetous saprotrophic fungi of the genera Calvatia and Lycoperdon, having a round fruiting body that discharges a cloud of brown spores when mature

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Puffball

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noun
any of various round basidiomycetous fungi (esp. order Lycoperdales) that burst at the touch, when mature, and discharge a brown powder

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Puffball

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n.
1. Any of various fungi chiefly of the family Lycoperdaceae, having a ball-shaped fruiting body that when pressed or struck releases clouds of small spores.
2. Informal The rounded head of a dandelion that has gone to seed.

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