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Definitions of puffball in various dictionaries:
noun - any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature
noun - any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
Any of various fungi of the genus Lycoperdon and related genera, having a ball-shaped fruiting body that when pressed or struck releases the enclosed spores in puffs of dust.
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| a fungus that produces a spherical or pear-shaped fruiting body which ruptures when ripe to release a cloud of spores. |
| Any of various fungi of the genus Lycoperdon and related genera, having a ball-shaped fruiting body that when pressed or struck releases the enclosed spores in puffs of dust. |
| Informal The rounded head of a dandelion that has gone to seed. |
| any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature |
| any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles |
| a large, white, round fungus that can be eaten |
| a skirt that has a rounded shape because it is gathered ( pulled together in folds) in at the bottom |
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| A puffball is a member of any of several groups of fungi in the division Basidiomycota. The puffballs were previously treated as a taxonomic group called the Gasteromycetes or Gasteromycetidae, but they are now known to be a polyphyletic assemblage. The distinguishing feature of all puffballs is that they do not have an open cap with spore-bearing gills. Instead, spores are produced internally, in a spheroidal fruitbody called a gasterothecium (gasteroid ('stomach-like') basidiocarp). As the spores mature, they form a mass called a gleba in the centre of the fruitbody that is often of a distinctive color and texture. The basidiocarp remains closed until after the spores have been released from the basidia. Eventually, it develops an aperture, or dries, becomes brittle, and splits, and the spores escape. The spores of puffballs are statismospores rather than ballistospores, meaning they are not forcibly extruded from the basidium. The fungi are called puffballs because clouds of brown d |