gleba
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glebae
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glebae
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Origin of gleba
1840–50; < New Latin, Latin glēba clod; see glebe
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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 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
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
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
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 Miron Elisha Hard
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 Thomas Clarkson
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
The whole world seemed to be morally, as well as materially, "adscripti glebae."
From Endymion by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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 Thomas Hughes
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
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