puffball
Kelime Anlamı :

1. Lycoperdon pratense.
2. kurtmantarı.
3. kurtmantar.
4. (isim) kurtmantarı.
5. (Botanik) kurtmantarı.
6. olgunlaşmış karahindiba tohumlarının çiçek sapından kopmadan önceki beyaz ve tüy gibi top hali.
7. kurt mantarı.
Tanımlar :
1. any of various fungi of the genus Lycoperdon and related genera, having a ball-shaped fruiting body that when pressed or struck releases the enclosed spores in puffs of dust.
2. informal the rounded head of a dandelion that has gone to seed.
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
1. any of various fungi that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
1. 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.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
1. any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature
2. any of various fungi of the genus scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.