Dictionary Entry
puffball
puffball is a 8-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 18 in Scrabble and 23 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 18 · Words With Friends 23 · 3 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
- 3noun
any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature
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