Term: puffball: any of various fungi of the family Lycoperdaceae whose round fruiting body discharges a cloud of spores when mature
Candidate hypernym: fungus: an organism of the kingdom Fungi lacking chlorophyll and feeding on organic matter; ranging from unicellular or multicellular organisms to spore-bearing syncytia → 1
Candidate hypernym: pine nut: edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America → 0
Candidate hypernym: opening: the first performance (as of a theatrical production) → 0
Candidate hypernym: hydromorphone hydrochloride: a narcotic analgesic (trade name Dilaudid) used to treat moderate to severe pain → 0
Candidate hypernym: smelt: small cold-water silvery fish; migrate between salt and fresh water → 0
Candidate hypernym: bait and switch: a deceptive way of selling that involves advertising a product at a very low price in order to attract customers who are then persuaded to switch to a more expensive product → 0
Candidate hypernym: san carlos apache: an Apache language → 0
Candidate hypernym: driving iron: (golf) the long iron with the most nearly vertical face → 0
Candidate hypernym: spring: a natural flow of ground water → 0
Candidate hypernym: cull: the person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality → 0
Candidate hypernym: coriolis force: (physics) a force due to the earth's rotation; acts on a body in motion (airplane or projectile) in a rotating reference frame; in a rotating frame of reference Newton's second law of motion can be made to apply if in addition to the real forces acting on a body a Coriolis force and a centrifugal force are introduced → 0