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How to pronounce “puffball

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Pronunciation guide for puffball

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Practice the English pronunciation of puffball with real speech in context.
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Real speech example
A flavorful field guide to foragingPlease be a puffball! Please be a puffball!
Definition summary
Any of various fungi, usually globose, that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies, especially in family Lycoperdaceae.

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How to pronounce puffball

A flavorful field guide to foraging

Please be a puffball! Please be a puffball!

Example Sentences

A Deep Dive Into “puffball

Meaning

  • [Noun]
  • Any of various fungi, usually globose, that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies, especially in family Lycoperdaceae.
  • (by extension) Any of various mushrooms with globose fruiting bodies.
  • A dandelion flower that has gone to seed, a dandelion clock.
  • (figurative) Something lacking substance.

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