puffball

noun

1. any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature

   noun.plant

   Synonyms true puffball

   Source: WordNet 3.0

2. any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles

   noun.plant

   Synonyms earthball false truffle hard-skinned puffball

   Source: WordNet 3.0

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

   noun

   Source: webster1913