puffball

English

noun
Definitions
  • Any of various fungi that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting fruiting bodies.

Etymology

Compound from English puff (puff of air) + English ball (testicle, round object).

Origin

English

ball

Gloss

testicle, round object

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