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puffball::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | earthball, false truffle, hard-skinned puffball |
| Type of | fungus |
| Has types | star earthball, scleroderma flavidium, smooth earthball, scleroderma aurantium, scleroderma bovista, scleroderma citrinum |
puffball::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | true puffball |
| Type of | fungus |
| Has types | calvatia gigantea, giant puffball |
Examples of puffball
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It sounded like he was trying to re-create a puffball Barbara Walters interview.
From the washingtontimes.com
Each puffball must hold millions of spores, like galaxies blown away by the wind.
From the guardian.co.uk
The sculptured puffball grows solitarily or in small groups in forest duff.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Not a football at all but a giant puffball that occasionally makes an appearance if you're lucky.
From the telegraph.co.uk
It is a giant puffball and can grow to three feet in diameter.
From the orlandosentinel.com
We want to see those puffball skirts, Hawaii shirts, high-waisted trousers and stone-wash jeans.
From the metro.co.uk
They've lured me into these games from time to time, and I always enjoyed the big, pink puffball.
From the wordplay.blogs.nytimes.com
Dresses included puffball gowns in zingy floral prints.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
They even tempted Kate Moss back to the runway, to close the show in a wedding cake-white puffball dress.
From the canberratimes.com.au
- Any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature
- Earthball: any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
- A puffball is a member of any of a number of groups of fungus 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. ...
- Puffball is a 2007 supernatural drama film directed by Nicolas Roeg. It is based on the novel by Fay Weldon adapted by her son Dan Weldon. The film was partially funded through the UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund.
- Puffball is a 1980 novel by Fay Weldon, which was made into a film in 2007, directed by Nicolas Roeg and starring Donald Sutherland, Miranda Richardson and Rita Tushingham.
- A gasteromycete basidioma in which the basidiospore mass (gleba) is enclosed by a papery peridium at maturity; an ostiole allows compression or wind suction to disperse basidiospores in the Lycoperdales and Tulostomatales; the basidiomata of the Sclerodermales have no ostiole.
- Is a medium-sized female Popple with white fur, yellow hair, and contrasting blue and magenta ears.
- A popular style of skirt in the 1980s. The Puffball is a double layered skirt that stands out from the body and has a padded look to it. examples
