puffball

A noun referring to a type of fungus with a round fruiting body that releases a cloud of spores when mature, or a related fungus with a hard-skinned subterranean fruiting body.

• 🇪🇸Sustantivo que designa un tipo de hongo con cuerpo fructífero redondeado que al madurar libera una nube de esporas, o un hongo emparentado con cuerpo fructífero subterráneo de piel dura.

1. Fungus with round fruiting body C1 formal scientific

   Any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature.

   • The puffball released a cloud of spores when I stepped on it.
   • We found a large puffball growing in the meadow.
   • Puffballs are often edible when they are young and white inside.

   🇪🇸bejín

   Sinónimos: lycoperdon

2. Hard-skinned subterranean fungus C1 formal scientific

   Any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles.

   • The Scleroderma puffball has a tough outer skin.
   • Unlike true truffles, this puffball is not considered a delicacy.
   • The subterranean puffball was difficult to locate in the forest.

   🇪🇸pedo de lobo subterráneo de piel dura

   Sinónimos: earthball

• puffballs plural form
• puffballs' possessive plural form
• puffball's possessive singular form