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puffballs

puffballs is the plural of puffball.

Meaning of puffball

Noun

puffball (plural puffballs)

  1. Any of various fungi, usually globose, that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies, especially in family Lycoperdaceae.
  2. (broadly) Any of various mushrooms with globose fruiting bodies.
  3. A dandelion flower that has gone to seed, a dandelion clock.
  4. (figuratively) 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

Phrases with puffballs

Questions about puffballs

What is puffballs the plural of?
Puffballs is the plural of puffball.

Words near puffballs in the dictionary

  1. puffback flycatchers
  2. puffbacks
  3. puffball
  4. puffball skirt
  5. puffball skirts
  6. puffballs
  7. puffbird
  8. puffbirds
  9. puffbutt
  10. puffbutts
  11. puffcorn

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