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Puffball
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Puffball has 2 senses
- puffball(n = noun.plant) true puffball - any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature; Array is a kind of fungus
- puffball(n = noun.plant) earthball, false truffle, hard-skinned puffball - any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles; Array is a member of genus scleroderma, scleroderma
is a member of family lycoperdaceae, lycoperdaceae
has particulars: calvatia gigantea, giant puffball
has particulars: scleroderma aurantium, scleroderma citrinum, scleroderma flavidium, star earthball, scleroderma bovista, smooth earthball
is a kind of fungus
CIDE DICTIONARY
Puffball, n.
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 . [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
Puffball
algae, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae, climber, conferva, confervoid, creeper, diatom, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, herb, heterophyte, ivy, kelp, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mold, moss, mushroom, parasite, parasitic plant, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, planktonic algae, plant families, pulse, red algae, rockweed, rust, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, smut, succulent, toadstool, vetch, vine, wort, wrack
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