From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Puffball \Puff"ball'\, noun (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) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
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}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
54 Moby Thesaurus words for "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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