giant puffball

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noun

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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How to use giant puffball in a sentence

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I knew there would be good times and bad, sickness and health, broken dishwashers and giant cockroaches in the bathroom.
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No alarms were triggered as she strolled out of the Giant supermarket in Limerick, Pennsylvania, and nobody thought otherwise.
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Until Levonuk reappeared an hour later wielding the soothing stuff at another Giant store 20 minutes away.
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The forests were lush and filled with life, from giant snakes to monkeys.
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The lazy giant was sprawling on the most comfortable of the sofas; the pair were alone in the dainty little drawing-room.
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There he was found by old Makitok, and for some time the giant and the wizard held converse together.
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And the nightmare clutch laid hold upon his heart with giant pincers.
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In the second part of the poem the lady is threatened by an unwelcome suitor, in the person of a hideous giant.
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The wind sang in his ears, and rock, bush, and stunted tree flashed by like so many missiles hurled at him by a giant hand.
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