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puffball

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An afro is a specific style where the hair is combed out into a spherical puffball.

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Quick take

Any of various fungi that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies.

Meaning at a glance

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noun

Any of various fungi that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies.

noun

A dandelion flower that has gone to seed, a dandelion clock.

noun

(figurative) Something lacking substance.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for puffball.

Example sentences

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An afro is a specific style where the hair is combed out into a spherical puffball.

2

Based on the amount of dust when the human hand pinches the puffball, the elephant would require a /huge/ puffball mushroom to produce that much dust (ash).

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Fungi basidiocarps are mostly water, so I find the comparisons between puffball fruit on Earth and the pictures of puffball-like structures on Mars questionable.

4

The philosophy and poetry and religion of such a mankind are not worth the dust of a puffball.

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A puffball or other living thing will probably mostly collapse when touched, but a rock or whatever won't.

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For instance in the SW United States there is really no way of mistaking anything poisonous for an edible puffball.

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A Relay: websocat wss://bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.subscribeRepos A PDS websocat wss://puffball.us-east.host.bsky.network/xrpc/com.atproto.sync.subscribeRepos And there are additional sync methods as well for doing backfill, etc.

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And Celine Dion - though how the Swiss managed to get her to wear that dress/skirt/puffball thing I don't know.

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The white puffball mushroom looks similar to amanita virosa, which is deadly.

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Also, half face respirators get much lighter and easier to breathe when you swap out the chemical cartridges for P100-only puffball filters (eg 2297).

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The buildings remind me of puffball mushrooms.

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I have my toddler gather me the flowers pre-puffball as bouquets for Mummy which helps prevent them from getting a chance to go to seed.

Quote examples

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According to this video [0], it is not something of carbon that the elephant puffs, but a "puffball mushroom".

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use puffball in a sentence?

An afro is a specific style where the hair is combed out into a spherical puffball.

What does puffball mean?

Any of various fungi that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies.

What part of speech is puffball?

puffball is commonly used as noun.