puffball : Idioms & Phrases
Giant puffball
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noun huge edible puffball up to 2 feet diameter and 25 pounds in weight
Calvatia gigantea.
WordNet
(Bot.) , a fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum ), edible when young, and when dried used for stanching wounds.
Webster 1913
hard-skinned puffball
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noun any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
earthball; puffball; false truffle.
WordNet
stalked puffball
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noun mushroom of the genus Tulostoma that resembles a puffball
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noun a variety of Podaxaceae
WordNet
true puffball
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noun any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature
puffball.
