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Puffball

noun

Any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature. Synonym: true puffball.

Any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles. Synonyms: earthball, false truffle, hard-skinned puffball.

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... well known that many of the lower species of plants are more widely distributed over the earth than most of the higher plants. Every cloud from a ripe puffball consists of thousands of spores started on the wings of the wind for an unknown journey. Their habits are not past finding out, but to examine them a person needs a good microscope. Most of them have no special ...

— Seed Dispersal • William J. Beal

Words linked to "Puffball" : scleroderma, Scleroderma aurantium, Calvatia gigantea, Lycoperdaceae, Scleroderma citrinum, genus Scleroderma, star earthball, fungus, Scleroderma bovista, family Lycoperdaceae, Scleroderma flavidium, smooth earthball