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PUFFBALL
earthball, false truffle, puffball, hard-skinned puffball
(noun) any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
puffball, true puffball
(noun) any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
puffball (plural puffballs)
Any of various fungi that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies.
Source: Wiktionary
Puff"ball`, n. (Bot.)
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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