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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Puffball \Puff"ball`\, n. (Bot.)
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.
[1913 Webster]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Bullfist \Bull"fist\, Bullfice \Bull"fice\, n. [Cf. G. bofist,
AS. wulfes fist puffball, E. fizz, foist.] (Bot.)
A kind of fungus. See Puffball.
[1913 Webster]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Puffball \Puff"ball`\, n. (Bot.)
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.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Bullfist \Bull"fist\, Bullfice \Bull"fice\, n. [Cf. G. bofist,
AS. wulfes fist puffball, E. fizz, foist.] (Bot.)
A kind of fungus. See Puffball.
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