puffball

About 0.03 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Any of various fungi, usually globose, that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies, especially in family Lycoperdaceae.
2. noun Any of various mushrooms with globose fruiting bodies.
3. noun A dandelion flower that has gone to seed, a dandelion clock.
4. noun Something lacking substance.

Similar words

false truffle earthball hard-skinned puffball true puffball mushroom statismospore stalked puffball smut-ball stalkball jelly fungus

Often followed by

of is clouds mushrooms mushroom and in spores flowers

Word family

puffballs