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Definition: Puffball |
PuffballNoun1. Any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature. 2. Any of various fungi of the genus Scleroderma having hard-skinned subterranean fruiting bodies resembling truffles. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "puffball" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1854. (references) |
Synonyms: PuffballSynonyms: earthball (n), false truffle (n), hard-skinned puffball (n), true puffball (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Puffball |
| English words defined with "puffball": Bullfice ♦ Calvatia gigantea ♦ earthstar ♦ Frog cheese, Fuzz ball ♦ giant puffball, gleba ♦ Pluff, Pseudocolus fusiformis, Puckball, Puckfist ♦ stalked puffball, stinky squid. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Puffball" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Puffball" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 7 | 133,076 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "puffball": Giant puffball ♦ stalked puffball ♦ true puffball. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
mushroom puffball | 12 |
puffball | 11 |
patagonia puffball | 4 |
giant puffball | 3 |
plush popples puffball toy | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "puffball"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vesse-de-loup pierreries (gemmed puffball). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | λυκοπέρδιο (gemmed puffball). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | vescia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | uffballpay дождевик (mack, oil-coat, puff ball, raincoat). (various references) pedo de lobo. (various references) röksvamp. (various references) kurtmantarı. (various references) порхавка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "puffball": puffballs. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-f-f-l-l-p-u" | |
-2 letters: lapful. | |
-3 letters: bluff, bulla, luffa. | |
-4 letters: baff, ball, buff, bull, fall, flab, flap, flub, full, luff, pall, puff, pula, pull. | |
-5 letters: aff, alb, all, alp, bal, bap, flu, fub, lab, lap, pal, pub, pul. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-f-f-l-l-p-u" | |
+1 letter: puffballs. | |
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