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The Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed. | 2008 | Copyright

puffball or smokeball, fungus in which the aboveground portion is typically a stemless brownish sac with an opening at the top through which issues the dustlike mass of ripe spores. The common puffball is Lycoperdon gemmatum. The giant puffball ( L. giganteum ) may reach a diameter of 1 ft (30 cm) or more. No puffballs are poisonous, and most forms are edible when young. They are related to the mushroom and are similar in flavor. Puffballs are classified in the kingdom Fungi , phylum (division) Basidiomycota.

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The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

puff·ball / ˈpəfˌbôl/ • n. 1. a fungus (Lycoperdon and other genera, family Lycoperdaceae) that produces a spherical or pear-shaped fruiting body that ruptures when ripe to release a cloud of spores. 2. anything round and fluffy, such as a powder puff.

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A Dictionary of Plant Sciences | 1998 | | Copyright

puffball The common name for the fruit body formed by some fungi of the Gasteromycetes. Puffballs are more or less spherical, and the spores that develop inside them are released through pores or cracks in the peridium. The giant puffball is Calvatia gigantea.

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World Encyclopedia | 2005 | Copyright

puffball Any of a large order of mushrooms (Lycoperdiales) whose spore masses become powdery at maturity and are expelled in ‘puffs’ when the case is pressed. Puffballs are stemless, and some species, but not all, are edible.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

puffball •all, appal (US appall), awl, Bacall, ball, bawl, befall, Bengal, brawl, call, caul, crawl, Donegal, drawl, drywall, enthral (US enthrall), fall, forestall, gall, Galle, Gaul, hall, haul, maul, miaul, miscall, Montreal, Naipaul, Nepal, orle, pall, Paul, pawl, Saul, schorl, scrawl, seawall, Senegal, shawl, small, sprawl, squall, stall, stonewall, tall, thrall, trawl, wall, waul, wherewithal, withal, yawl •carryall • blackball • handball •patball • hardball • netball • baseball •paintball • speedball • heelball •meatball • stickball • pinball • spitball •racquetball • basketball • volleyball •eyeball, highball •oddball • softball • mothball •korfball • cornball •lowball, no-ball, snowball •goalball •cueball, screwball •goofball • stoolball • football •puffball • punchball • fireball •rollerball • cannonball • butterball •catchall • bradawl • holdall • Goodall

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	Julius seizes an emperor among puffballs. Newspaper article from: Daily Mail (London); 9/28/1996
	The return of the dreaded puffball; FEMAIL/TRENDS. Newspaper article from: Daily Mail (London); 9/23/1999
	JOURNAL; GIANT PUFFBALLS.(SPORTS) Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 8/26/2011