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A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.

A kind of fungus. See Puffball.

dapted for tracks that cross at right angles. -- Frog cheese, a popular name for a large puffball. -- Frog eater, one who eats frogs; -- a term of contempt applied to a Frenchman by the vulgar class of English. -- Frog fly. (Zoöl.) See Frog hopper. -- Frog hopper (Zoöl.), a small, leaping, hemipterous insect living…

ll, a kind of fungus or mushroom, which, when pressed, bursts and scatters a fine dust; a puffball.

order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs.

in connection with glaciers. See Pothole. -- Giant powder. See Nitroglycerin. -- Giant puffball (Bot.), a fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum), edible when young, and when dried used for stanching wounds. -- Giant salamander (Zoöl.), a very large aquatic salamander (Megalobatrachus maximus), found in Japan. It is the larg…

orming a fine dust, which is thrown out like smoke when the plant is compressed or burst; puffball.

The envelope or coat of certain fungi, such as the puffballs and earthstars.

A puff, as of smoke from a pipe, or of dust from a puffball; a slight explosion, as of a small quantity of gunpowder. [Scot.]

A puffball.

A puffball.

Anything light and filled with air. Specifically: (a) A puffball.

The puffball.

Same as Puffball.