- puffball
- puff|ball [ `pʌf,bɔl ] noun counta round brown FUNGUS that lets out seeds through an opening in its top
Usage of the words and phrases in modern English. 2013.
Usage of the words and phrases in modern English. 2013.
Puffball — Puff ball , n. (Bot.) 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}. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
puffball — ► NOUN ▪ a fungus that produces a large round fruiting body which ruptures when ripe to release a cloud of spores … English terms dictionary
puffball — [puf′bôl΄] n. any of various round basidiomycetous fungi (esp. order Lycoperdales) that burst at the touch, when mature, and discharge a brown powder … English World dictionary
Puffball — Taxobox name = Puffball image width = 250px image caption = Puffball Mushroom regnum = Fungi divisio = Basidiomycota classis = ordo = familia = subdivision ranks = subdivision = A puffball is a member of any of a number of groups of fungus in the … Wikipedia
puffball — noun 1. any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature • Syn: ↑true puffball • Hypernyms: ↑fungus • Hyponyms: ↑giant puffball, ↑Calvatia gigantea … Useful english dictionary
puffball — UK [ˈpʌfˌbɔːl] / US [ˈpʌfˌbɔl] noun [countable] Word forms puffball : singular puffball plural puffballs a round brown fungus that lets out seeds through an opening in its top … English dictionary
puffball — [[t]pʌ̱fbɔːl[/t]] puffballs also puff ball N COUNT A puffball is a round fungus which bursts when it is ripe and sends a cloud of seeds into the air … English dictionary
Puffball Collective — Puffball CollectiveFirst Appearance: Incredible Hulk #301Last Appearance: Incredible Hulk # 308Origin: Shortly after the Incredible Hulk was banished to the Crossroads (a dimension of infinite time and space containing an infinite number of… … Wikipedia
Puffball (novel) — Puffball is a 1980 novel by Fay Weldon, which was made into a film [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0484881/] in 2007 by Nicholas Roeg and starred Donald Sutherland, Miranda Richardson and Rita Tushingham.Although set in rural England the film was… … Wikipedia
Puffball Islands — (coord|69|2|S|68|30|W|) is a scattered group of small, low, mainly ice covered islands and rocks which extend about 10 nautical miles (18 km) in a NE SW direction, lying in southern Marguerite Bay off the west coast of Antarctic Peninsula. The… … Wikipedia
Puffball (film) — Infobox Film name=Puffball caption= imdb id=0484881 writer=Fay Weldon (novel) Dan Weldon (screenplay) starring=Kelly Reilly Miranda Richardson Donald Sutherland director=Nicolas Roeg producer=Julie Baines Dan Weldon distributor= Yume Pictures… … Wikipedia