puffball

Noun

Meaning

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.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

false truffle earthball hard-skinned puffball true puffball ivy bracken creeper algae bean mushroom rust fungus climber puff downy

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Antonyms

despite notwithstanding on the contrary no matter even though contrary to

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Hypernyms

fungus

Hyponyms

Scleroderma bovista smooth earthball Scleroderma flavidium Scleroderma aurantium Scleroderma citrinum Calvatia gigantea

Phrases with the word

stalked puffball true puffball tumbling puffball brown puffball dwarf puffball fen puffball

Close letter words and terms

puffadder shyshark puffback puffback flycatcher puffball skirt puffbird puffcorn