| 单词 | puffball |
| 释义 | puffball (once / 80955 pages) n WORD FAMILY puffball: puffballs USAGE EXAMPLESThe two, dressed in Dodger Blue and offering what appeared to be white puffballs, were removed. US News(Sep 30, 2016) They look kind of like puffballs on sticks. New York Times(Aug 21, 2016) It was like kicking puffballs of dandelion seeds as you walk across an open field. Gordon Korman, Ungifted(2012) 1n any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature Syn|Hypo|Hyper true puffball Calvatia gigantea, giant puffball huge edible puffball up to 2 feet diameter and 25 pounds in weight fungus an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia 2n any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles Syn|Hypo|Hyper earthball, false truffle, hard-skinned puffball Scleroderma aurantium, Scleroderma citrinum an earthball fungus that is a dingy brownish yellow and a dark purplish interior; the peridium is covered with a pattern of small warts Scleroderma flavidium, star earthballan earthball with a smooth upper surface that is at first buried in sand; the top of the fruiting body opens up to form segments like the ray of an umbel Scleroderma bovista, smooth earthballan earthball with a peridium that is firm dry and smooth when young but developing cracks when mature; pale orange-yellow when young and reddish brown at maturity fungus an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia |
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