gleba

American  

[glee-buh] / ˈgli bə /

noun

Mycology.

plural

glebae

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 /

plural

glebae

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

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Other Word Forms

• glebal adjective

Etymology

Origin of gleba

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

Example Sentences

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

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

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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.

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During this elongation of the receptacle a large part of the substance of the gleba dissolves into a thick liquid containing the spores.

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We have not examined any specimens of Camillea globosa, but suspect a section would show two divisions of the gleba, as in the next.

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