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Webster 1913 Edition
Puffball
Puff′ballˊ
,Noun.
(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
. Definition 2024
puffball
puffball
English
Gem-studded puffball (Lycoperdon perlatum).
Noun
puffball (plural puffballs)
- Any of various fungi that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies.
Translations
fungi