puffball

1. Any of various fungi, usually globose, that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies, especially in family Lycoperdaceae.

   Bofist, Bovist, Stäubling

   дождеви́кdoždevík, де́душкин таба́кdéduškin tabák

   any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature

2. (broadly)Any of various mushrooms with globose fruiting bodies.

   any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles

3. A dandelion flower that has gone to seed, a dandelion clock.

4. (figuratively)Something lacking substance.

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