| NOUN | plant | giant puffball, Calvatia gigantea | huge edible puffball up to 2 feet diameter and 25 pounds in weight |
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| Meaning | huge edible puffball up to 2 feet diameter and 25 pounds in weight. | |
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| Synonym | Calvatia gigantea | |
| Member of | Calvatia, genus Calvatia | genus of puffballs having outer casings whose upper parts break at maturity into angular pieces to expose the spores |
| Broader | puffball, true puffball | Any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature |
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