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

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

The gleba is composed of semi-persistent cells, plainly seen with a glass or even with the naked eye.

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

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 Hard, Miron Elisha

The fruit-bodies are of very various shapes, showing a differentiation into an outer peridium and an inner spore-bearing mass, the gleba.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various

O quae tam duro gleba est tam grata colono?

From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) by Crashaw, Richard