meaning of puffball
1. 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. any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
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