puffball
/ˈpʌfˌbɔːl/
puffball noun: any of various fungi, usually globose, that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies, especially in family Lycoperdaceae.
Noun
puffball (plural puffballs)
- Any of various fungi, usually globose, that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies, especially in family Lycoperdaceae.
- Any of various mushrooms with globose fruiting bodies.
- A dandelion flower that has gone to seed, a dandelion clock.
- Something lacking substance.
- Scads of souls thought the record was yet another puffball from ex-Beatle Paul.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 371
puffball meaning in Tamil
puffball in Tamil
- ஊதுகாளான்
Forms of puffball
| plural | puffballs |
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Origin of puffball
From puff + ball.
Words formed from puffball
- brain puffball
- brown puffball
- common puffball
- corkstar puffball
- Curtis's puffball
- dusky puffball
- dusty puffball
- dwarf puffball
- false puffball
- fen puffball
- flaky puffball
- gem-studded puffball
- giant puffball
- grassland puffball
- grey puffball
- gum puffball
- hard-skinned puffball
- lead-grey puffball
- long-spined puffball
- long-stemmed puffball
- meadow puffball
- mosaic puffball
- paltry puffball
- pear-shaped puffball
- peeling puffball
- pestle puffball
- pigskin poison puffball
- puffball beetle
- puffball skirt
- puffball sponge
- purple-spored puffball
- sculpted puffball
- sculptured puffball
- smoky puffball
- smooth puffball
- spiny puffball
- spring puffball
- stalked puffball
- stump puffball
- summer puffball
- true puffball
- tumbling puffball
- umber-brown puffball
- warted puffball
- winter stalk-puffball
Phrases with puffball
Questions about puffball
- What does puffball mean?
- Puffball means any of various fungi, usually globose, that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies, especially in family Lycoperdaceae.
- What is puffball in Tamil?
- Puffball in Tamil is ஊதுகாளான். See Puffball meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is puffball?
- Puffball is a noun.
- How do you pronounce puffball?
- Puffball is pronounced /ˈpʌfˌbɔːl/.
- What is the plural of puffball?
- The plural of puffball is puffballs.
Words near puffball in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: puffball (page history and authors); puffball (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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