The puffball, Lycoperdon Bovista. Also used as a term of abuse.

A puffball fungus. English regional (chiefly west midlands) in later use. Now rare.

A kind of fungus: = puffball, n. 1a. Obsolete (English regional in later use).

a type of edible fungus, perhaps a puffball.

Combination. = fist-ball n.

The fungus usually known as puff-ball (Lycoperdon bovista). Also called bullfist, n., puckfist, n. (see those words) and wolves' fist. Obsolete.

A popular name of the fungus Lycoperdon Bovista, puff-ball.

= puffball, n. 1a. Also figurative (cf. puffball, n. 1b).

The Puffball (Lycoperdon bovista). Now dialect.

= fuzz-ball, n. Obsolete.

The fungus called puff-ball (Lycoperdon bovista). ‘Still in use in Suffolk’ Britten and Holland.

A puffball fungus, esp. one dried and pressed for use as a styptic. Also in extended use (derogatory): †a despised person (obsolete).

= fuzz-ball, n., puffball, n.

Any of various gasteromycete fungi characterized by a globose fruiting body which on the rupturing of the outer wall (peridium) at maturity…

= puffball, n. 1, puckfist, n. 1.

= puffball, n. 1a. Cf. puff, n. 5. rare.

The fungus Puff-ball, Lycoperdon Bovista.

(a) = puffball, n. 1a (now historical and rare); †(b) English regional the common mallow, Malva sylvestris; cf. cheese, n.1 2; (obsolete rare).

= puckfist, n. 1.

= fuzz-ball, n.

a fungal disease of wheat: = bunt, n.2 2 (cf. smut-ball, n.).