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Meaning of GLEBA

Pronunciation:  'gleebu

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn
 
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 See Also: reproductive structure, sporophore

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\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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