puffball
noun
puff·ball ˈpəf-ˌbȯl 
: any of various globose and often edible fungi (especially family Lycoperdaceae) that discharge mature spores in a smokelike cloud when pressed or struck
Example Sentences
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Alice Cary, Vogue, 6 July 2022 Kirby and the Forgotten Land launched last Friday, bringing the pink puffball into a 3D open-world environment for the first time. Jacob Siegal, BGR, 29 Mar. 2022 Other choices suggested that a more modern, efficient glamor is in, and the era of the large sweeping puffball of a dress may be over. Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Mar. 2022 Daudert's personal favorite ways to eat the tasty fungi are shiitake on frozen pizzas, lion's mane mushrooms in stir fry and puffball cubed as a meat-alternative. Samantha Hendrickson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2022 Tully watched the video of the incident that injured Noel, a fox-red puffball on very short legs. Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2021 Fraga had first met the plant in late spring, when the rains coax out a single pale yellow puffball of a blossom. Gregory Barber, Wired, 17 June 2021 Some images show what appear to be white patches resembling lichen covering parts of the surface, while others show spherical structures that the researchers suggest may be akin to puffball fungi on Earth. Mike Wehner, BGR, 9 May 2021 Kick or squeeze a mature puffball and clouds of dust-like spores will rise up. Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2020 See More
Alice Cary, Vogue, 6 July 2022 Kirby and the Forgotten Land launched last Friday, bringing the pink puffball into a 3D open-world environment for the first time. Jacob Siegal, BGR, 29 Mar. 2022 Other choices suggested that a more modern, efficient glamor is in, and the era of the large sweeping puffball of a dress may be over. Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 28 Mar. 2022 Daudert's personal favorite ways to eat the tasty fungi are shiitake on frozen pizzas, lion's mane mushrooms in stir fry and puffball cubed as a meat-alternative. Samantha Hendrickson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 23 Feb. 2022 Tully watched the video of the incident that injured Noel, a fox-red puffball on very short legs. Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2021 Fraga had first met the plant in late spring, when the rains coax out a single pale yellow puffball of a blossom. Gregory Barber, Wired, 17 June 2021 Some images show what appear to be white patches resembling lichen covering parts of the surface, while others show spherical structures that the researchers suggest may be akin to puffball fungi on Earth. Mike Wehner, BGR, 9 May 2021 Kick or squeeze a mature puffball and clouds of dust-like spores will rise up. Bill Heavey, Field & Stream, 7 Dec. 2020 See More Word History
First Known Use
1649, in the meaning defined above
Medical Definition
puffball
noun
puff·ball ˈpəf-ˌbȯl
: any of various globose and often edible fungi (especially family Lycoperdaceae) that discharge ripe spores in a smokelike cloud when pressed or struck