GIANT PUFFBALL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does giant puffball mean? 

• 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.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GIANT PUFFBALL (noun)

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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)