Thesaurus: puffball

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1. 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.
2. n. any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature
3. n. any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
4. 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.
5. A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and otherspecies of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; --called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.
6. n:100 n. any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature