Puffball

n.

1.

(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.

Noun	1.	puffball - any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature Synonyms: true puffball
	2.	puffball - any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles Synonyms: earthball, hard-skinned puffball, false truffle

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