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.

• 🇵🇹Substantivo que designa um tipo de fungo com corpo de frutificação arredondado que, ao amadurecer, libera uma nuvem de esporos, ou um fungo aparentado com corpo de frutificação subterrâneo de casca 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.

   🇵🇹Bexiga

   Sinônimos: 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.

   🇵🇹Escleroderma

   Sinônimos: earthball

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