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

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 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 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

Hymenium on the surface of the gleba which is enclosed within the peridium up to the maturity of the spores or longer; spores continuous, sphæroid or ellipsoid, hyaline or colored.

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

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