Crossword-Solution: PUFFBALL
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Puffball | n. | A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin. |
We have 11 clues for the answer “PUFFBALL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Curled-up Angora kitten, e.g. | 1 answer |
| It gets a big head | 1 answer |
| Large fungus | 1 answer |
| Spherical fungus | 1 answer |
| Spherical mushroom | 1 answer |
| ball-shaped fungus | 1 answer |
| Fungus – rounded skirt | 1 answer |
| fruiting body | 2 answers |
| basidiomycetes | 4 answers |
| Edible fungus. | 14 answers |
| Fungus | 48 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZCEMEA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PUFFBALL (5)
The goatskins in which they were sewn up were as brittle as paper, and the poor old things themselves gave out dust like a puffball whenever they were touched.
You both belong to the order of what I call puffball politicians.” Catherine laughed heartily at the simile.
Meanwhile, (1) all mushrooms with pink gills, (2) all coral-like fungi, (3) all that grow on wood, and (4) all puffballs, are good to eat if they are young and tender--only don't mistake an unspread Aminita for a puffball.
THE GIANT PUFFBALL From what sad star I know not, but I found Myself new-born below the coppice rail, No bigger than the dewdrops and as round, In a soft sward, no cattle might assail.
Every cloud from a ripe puffball consists of thousands of spores started on the wings of the wind for an unknown journey.
Quotes with PUFFBALL (1)
In a while the organism will repair itself, and I, the ghost within it, will be my old self again. But the truth, he knows, is otherwise. His pleasure in living has been snuffed out. Like a leaf on a stream, like a puffball on a breeze, he has begun to float toward his end.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, Newsday, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1956–2017).