GLEBA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gleba mean? 

• GLEBA (noun)
  The noun GLEBA has 1 sense:

1. fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn

  Familiarity information: GLEBA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GLEBA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("gleba" is a kind of...):

reproductive structure (the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction)

Holonyms ("gleba" is a part of...):

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)