gle·ba (gl  b )n. pl. gle·bae (-b  ) The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of a puffball. [Latin gl ba, clod.] |
| gleba (glb) Plural glebae (gl b) The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of the basidiomycete fungus known as the puffball. |
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| Noun | 1. | gleba - fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn reproductive structure - the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction sporophore - a spore-bearing branch or organ: the part of the thallus of a sporophyte that develops spores; in ferns and mosses and liverworts is practically equivalent to the sporophyte |
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