Hypertext Webster Gateway: "puffball"
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) 1.7 (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 fruiting bodies resembling
truffles [syn: {earthball}, {false truffle}, {hard-skinned
puffball}]
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