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
- : 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.
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