puffball

English

Gem-studded puffball (Lycoperdon perlatum).

Etymology

puff +‎ ball

Noun

puffball (plural puffballs)

Any of various fungi that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies.

Derived terms

puffball skirt

Translations

fungi

Czech: pýchavka f
Finnish: tuhkelo (fi)
French: vesse-de-loup (fr) f
German: Bovist (de) m
Hungarian: pöfeteg
Irish: béiceadán m, bolg béice m, bolgán béice m
Maori: tūtaeatua
Norwegian:
Bokmål: røyksopp m

Nynorsk: røyksopp m

Ojibwe: anang
Polish: kurzawka (pl) f
Russian: дождеви́к (ru) m (doždevík), де́душкин таба́к m (déduškin tabák)
Scottish Gaelic: balg-péiteach m, balg-smùid m, balg-séididh m
Swedish: röksvamp
Welsh: chwysigen fwg f
Westrobothnian: fjuksópp m, fjawksapp m, pjawksapp m, fauksapp m

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