Lexic.us

Definition of Puffball

1. Noun. Any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature.

2. Noun. Any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles.

Definition of Puffball

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.

Definition of Puffball

1. Noun. Any of various fungi that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Puffball

1. any of various globular fungi [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Puffball

puff-legs puff-pastry puff adder puff batter puff of air puff out puff paste puff pastries puff pastry puff piece

puff pieces puff the magic dragon puff up puffadder puffadders puffball (current term) puffbird puffbirds puffed puffed-rice

puffed out puffed rice puffed up puffed wheat puffer pufferbellies pufferbelly pufferfish pufferfishes

Literary usage of Puffball

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of Experiments in Elementary Science by Francis Day Curtis (1918)
"Where are the spores of the puffball located? 3. In each case how are the spores sown? ... Are all mushrooms, aside from the puffball, gilled? 6. ..."

2. Handbook of Nature-study for Teachers and Parents: Based on the Cornell by Anna Botsford Comstock (1911)
"Where did you find the puffball? On what was it growing? ... Remove the puffball, and examine the place where it stood with a lens to find the matted and ..."

3. Fungal Flora of the Lehigh Valley, Pa. by William Herbst (1899)
"BOVISTA.—The Bovista puffball. The closed puffball. .—The open (with a pore) puffball. ... This is a very rare puffball. From a postal, in return from Prof. ..."

4. Prairie Smoke by Melvin Randolph Gilmore (1922)
"The puffball very quickly increased in size and weight so that it was all ... Still the puffball continued to grow until the turtle's body was pressed flat ..."

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