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Puffball

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Any of various fungi, usually globose, that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies, especially in family Lycoperdaceae.
  2. 2
    any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles wordnet
  3. 3
    Any of various mushrooms with globose fruiting bodies. broadly
  4. 4
    any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature wordnet
  5. 5
    A dandelion flower that has gone to seed, a dandelion clock.
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  1. 6
    Something lacking substance. figuratively

    "Scads of souls thought the record was yet another puffball from ex-Beatle Paul."

Etymology

From puff + ball.

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