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puffball

/puhf-bawl/US // ˈpʌfˌbɔl //UK // (ˈpʌfˌbɔːl) //

泡芙球,泡芙,泡芙丸,蓬头垢面

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : any of various basidiomycetous fungi, especially of the genus Lycoperdon and allied genera, characterized by a ball-like fruit body that emits a cloud of spores when broken.

Examples

  • It’s a yummy puffball crispy cracker that you can put anything in and eat.

  • Henry knew it was exactly the same white puffball that he had noticed in Violet's vase that very morning.

  • The puffball very quickly increased in size and weight so that it was all the turtle could bear.

  • Atop the low cliff a red puffball glistened in the morning light.

  • It was as if each man at every step crushed with his toe a puffball that discharged its powdery particles upward into his face.

  • Every cloud from a ripe puffball consists of thousands of spores started on the wings of the wind for an unknown journey.