puffball
nounEtymology From puff + ball.
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.
2
Broadly Any of various mushrooms with globose fruiting bodies.
3
A dandelion flower that has gone to seed, a dandelion clock.
4
Figuratively Something lacking substance.
- Scads of souls thought the record was yet another puffball from ex-Beatle Paul.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page 371:
- Derived terms
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