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Answer for the clue "Part of a puffball ", 5 letters:
gleba

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Word definitions for gleba in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
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 ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context mycology English) The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of certain fungus.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.

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.