giant puffball

American  

noun

1. a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.

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Example Sentences

"A giant puffball is the most easily recognisable 'forageable' mushroom," she said.

From BBC • Dec. 14, 2024

As the couple knelt down and began digging around the object, Colin wondered if it was some kind of strange fungal growth, a giant puffball.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 3, 2021

The giant puffball mushroom shown below illustrates dispersing spores on the wind when it bursts open and releases trillions of spores.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

A moon only .6% as dense as the earth would be like a giant puffball, into which astronauts, TV cameras and all would sink, never to return.

From Time Magazine Archive

Some of them, like the brain puffball or the giant puffball, are occasionally a foot in diameter, and yield flesh enough to feed a dozen persons.

From Boy Scouts Handbook The First Edition, 1911 by Boy Scouts of America