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Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn
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gleba
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Gleba is the fleshy spore -bearing inner mass of fungi such as the puffball or stinkhorn . The gleba is a solid mass of spores, generated within an enclosed area within the sporocarp . The continuous maturity of the sporogenous cells leave the spores behind ...
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n. (context mycology English) The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of certain fungus.
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Gleba \Gle"ba\, n.; pl. Gleb[ae] . [L., a clod.] (Bot.) The chambered sporogenous tissue forming the central mass of the sporophore in puff balls, stinkhorns, etc.
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n. fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn
Usage examples of gleba.
Quidam ante portam oppidi Gallus per manus sebi ac picis traditas glebas in ignem e regione turris proiciebat: scorpione ab latere dextro traiectus exanimatusque concidit.