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puffball has definitions from the field of botany
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[ noun ] (botany) any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature

Synonyms

true_puffball

Related terms

fungus giant_puffball Lycoperdaceae

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[ noun ] (botany) any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles

Synonyms

false_truffle hard-skinned_puffball earthball

Related terms

fungus Scleroderma_citrinum Scleroderma_bovista Scleroderma_flavidium Scleroderma

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