puffballEtymologyFrom puff + ball.nounAny of various fungi, usually globose, that produce a cloud of brown dust-like spores from their mature fruiting bodies, especially in family Lycoperdaceae.Any of various mushrooms with globose fruiting bodies.A dandelion flower that has gone to seed, a dandelion clock.Something lacking substance.“Scads of souls thought the record was yet another puffball from ex-Beatle Paul.”