gleba

American  

[glee-buh] / ˈgli bə /

noun

Mycology.

• glebae
  plural

1. the sporogenous tissue forming the central part of the sporophore in certain fungi, as in puffballs and stinkhorns.

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gleba Scientific  

/ glē′bə /

• glebae
  plural

1. The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of the basidiomycete fungus known as the puffball.

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Other Word Forms

Derived Forms

• glebal
  adjective

Inflected Forms

Nouns

• glebae
  plural

Etymology

Origin of gleba

1840–50; < New Latin, Latin glēba clod; see glebe

Example Sentences

See Examples For:

gleba glebae

It starts to spread a jelly-like slime called a gleba, which is a nauseating greenish-black color that contains its spores.

From Salon ● Apr. 30, 2023

When old the gleba consists of a dusty mass of threads and spores.

From Student's Hand-book of Mushrooms of America, Edible and Poisonous by Thomas Taylor

Plants membranaceous, leathery or fleshy, furnished with a peridium and gleba, the latter being sometimes supported on a receptacle.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson

This runs off and is washed off by the rains, leaving the inner surface of the gleba exposed, and showing certain characters peculiar to the various genera.

From Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. by George Francis Atkinson

The chambers are called the gleba and this is surrounded by the peridium or rind, which in different puffballs exhibits various characteristic ways of opening to let the spores escape.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

The whole world seemed to be morally, as well as materially, "adscripti glebae."

From Endymion by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield

On all country estates, there were a number of serfs, glebae adscripti, sold with the estate, but not away from it.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns

He ordained, therefore, that they should be attached to the plantations, and made, though free labourers, a sort of adscripti glebae for five years.

From Thoughts on the Necessity of Improving the Condition of the Slaves in the British Colonies With a View to Their Ultimate Emancipation; and on the Practicability, the Safety, and the Advantages of the Latter Measure. by Thomas Clarkson

But neither feudalism nor slavery, in the old pagan sense of the word, nor even serfdom, properly so called, as the doom of the ascripti glebae, ever existed in Ireland.

From Irish Race in the Past and the Present by Augustus J. Thebaud

Were the serfs and the ascripti glebae of feudal Europe to be accounted slaves?

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by Thomas De Quincey