giant_puffball (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the expression *giant puffball*:
NOUN	plant	giant puffball, Calvatia gigantea	huge edible puffball up to 2 feet diameter and 25 pounds in weight

English > *giant puffball*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	huge edible puffball up to 2 feet diameter and 25 pounds in weight.
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

HyperDic: giant_puffball