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

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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

Allied to Scleroderma and distinguished by the cavities of the gleba containing distinct peridioles.

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

The gleba, or spore-bearing portion, in the early stage forms a conical honeycombed cap within the inner shell or membrane, concealing the stem to which it is attached.

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

Peridium irregularly globose, thick, attenuated downward into a stem-like base, opening by disintegration of its upper portion; internal mass or gleba divided into distinct sac-like cells.

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

The spore-mass or gleba, in its young state, is surrounded by four layers.

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

The second of villains regardent, who were adscripti glebae, or attached as freehold property to the soil.

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 Clarkson, Thomas

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

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

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 Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

I was born and bred a west-country man, thank God! a Wessex man, a citizen of the noblest Saxon kingdom of Wessex, a regular "Angular Saxon," the very soul of me adscriptus glebae.

From Tom Brown's School Days by Hughes, Thomas

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

From Endymion by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield