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GIANT PUFFBALL

• GIANT PUFFBALL (noun)
The noun GIANT PUFFBALL has 1 sense:

1. huge edible puffball up to 2 feet diameter and 25 pounds in weight

Familiarity information: GIANT PUFFBALL used as a noun is very rare.

• GIANT PUFFBALL (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Huge edible puffball up to 2 feet diameter and 25 pounds in weight

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Calvatia gigantea; giant puffball

Hypernyms ("giant puffball" is a kind of...):

puffball; true puffball (any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature)

Holonyms ("giant puffball" is a member of...):

Calvatia; genus Calvatia (genus of puffballs having outer casings whose upper parts break at maturity into angular pieces to expose the spores)

"He who laughs last laughs longest."
(English proverb)
"All plants are our brothers and sisters. They talk to us and if we listen, we can hear them."
(Native American proverb, Arapaho)
"A mountain won't get to a mountain, but a human will get to a human."
(Armenian proverb)
"A good dog gets a good bone."
(Corsican proverb)

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