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gle·ba  (glb)

n. pl. gle·bae (-b)

The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of a puffball.

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[Latin glba, clod.]

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gleba  (glb)

Plural glebae (glb)

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

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Noun

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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