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Noun: true puffball
  1. Any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature
    "Children enjoyed stepping on true puffballs to release the spores";
    - puffball

Derived forms: true puffballs

Type of: fungus

Part of: family Lycoperdaceae, Lycoperdaceae