Definitions for puffballs

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puffballs puff·ball

Spelling: [puhf-bawl]

IPA: /ˈpʌfˌbɔl/

Puffballs is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 18 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 199 anagrams from letters in puffballs (abffllpsu).

Definitions for puffballs

noun

1. any of various basidiomycetous fungi, especially of the genus Lycoperdon and allied genera, characterized by a ball-like fruit body that emits a cloud of spores when broken.
2. any of various basidiomycetous fungi, especially of the genus Lycoperdon and allied genera, characterized by a ball-like fruit body that emits a cloud of spores when broken.

Origin of puffballs

First recorded in 1640-50; puff + ball¹

Examples for puffballs

In the light of dawn the deadly red haze was forming once more over the puffball plain.

Then the puffball became as light as a feather and turned black.

As he set foot on O'Connell bridge a puffball of smoke plumed up from the parapet.

So he took the puffball back and showed it to the young man.

All varieties of puffball with a pure white interior are harmless, if eaten before becoming crumbly and powdery.

After the puffball has matured, the contents change into a brown, dustlike mass, and the top falls off; and it is then inedible.

The puffball very quickly increased in size and weight so that it was all the turtle could bear.

It is called the puffball in English, but its French name is the vesse-de-loup.

It was as if each man at every step crushed with his toe a puffball that discharged its powdery particles upward into his face.

In a night a puffball will grow prodigiously, and in the same short period a mass of paste may be covered with mould.

Then the puffball became as light as a feather and turned black.

So he took the puffball back and showed it to the young man.

It is called the puffball in English, but its French name is the vesse-de-loup.

After the puffball has matured, the contents change into a brown, dustlike mass, and the top falls off; and it is then inedible.

It was as if each man at every step crushed with his toe a puffball that discharged its powdery particles upward into his face.

In a night a puffball will grow prodigiously, and in the same short period a mass of paste may be covered with mould.

All varieties of puffball with a pure white interior are harmless, if eaten before becoming crumbly and powdery.

In the light of dawn the deadly red haze was forming once more over the puffball plain.

As he set foot on O'Connell bridge a puffball of smoke plumed up from the parapet.

The puffball very quickly increased in size and weight so that it was all the turtle could bear.