puffball

3 definitions found

puffball - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Puffball \Puff"ball`\, n. (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.
     [1913 Webster]

puffball - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

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

puffball - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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