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Meaning of Puffball | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. Any of various fungi, usually globose, that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies, especially in family Lycoperdaceae.
  2. Any of various mushrooms with globose fruiting bodies.
  3. A dandelion flower that has gone to seed, a dandelion clock.
  4. Something lacking substance.

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Examples

“Scads of souls thought the record was yet another puffball from ex-Beatle Paul.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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