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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 puff·ball /ˈpʌfˌbɔl/
 塵菌,羽狀實

From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 puff·ball /ˈpəfˌbɔl/ 名詞
 馬勃

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Puff·ball n. Bot. A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 puffball
      n 1: any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round
           fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature
           [syn: true puffball]
      2: any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having
         hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling
         truffles [syn: earthball, false truffle, hard-skinned
          puffball]