Found 2 items, similar to puffball.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: puffball puffball n 1: any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature [syn: true puffball] 2: any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles [syn: earthball, false truffle, hard-skinned puffball ]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Puffball 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]