What does "puffball" mean?

Any of various fungi, usually globose, that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies, especially in family Lycoperdaceae.

What is a synonym for "puffball"?

Common synonyms include: algae, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae, climber.

Puffball

noun

noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun

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
any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles wordnet
3
Any of various mushrooms with globose fruiting bodies. broadly
4
any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature wordnet
5
A dandelion flower that has gone to seed, a dandelion clock.