English[edit]
Gem-studded puffball (Lycoperdon perlatum).
Etymology[edit]
puff + ball
puffball (plural puffballs)
- Any of various fungi that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies.
- (figurative) Something lacking substance.
1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 371:Scads of souls thought the record was yet another puffball from ex-Beatle Paul.
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
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- Breton: louf-bleiz m, puferig m
- Bulgarian: праханка f (prahanka)
- Catalan: pet de llop m
- Czech: pýchavka f
- Dutch: stuifzwam (nl) m
- Finnish: tuhkelo (fi)
- French: vesse-de-loup (fr) f
- German: Bovist (de) m
- Greek:
- Ancient: πέζις f (pézis)
- Hungarian: pöfeteg (hu)
- Irish: béiceadán m, bolg béice m, bolgán béice m
- Italian: vescia f
- Kazakh: жаңбыршы (jañbyrşy)
- Latvian: pūpēdis m
- Maori: tūtaeatua
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: røyksopp m
- Nynorsk: røyksopp m
- Ojibwe: anang
- Polish: kurzawka (pl) f, purchawka (pl) f
- Portuguese: bexiga-de-lobo f, bufa-de-lobo f, licoperdo m
- Romansch: bovist m
- Russian: дождеви́к (ru) m (doždevík), де́душкин таба́к m (déduškin tabák)
- Scottish Gaelic: balg-péiteach m, balg-smùid m, balg-séididh m
- Slovak: prášivka f
- Spanish: pedo de lobo m, cuesco de lobo m
- Swedish: röksvamp
- Turkish: toz mantarı
- Welsh: coden fwg f, chwysigen fwg f
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