Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of a puffball.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A genus of pteropods.
- noun A genus of true siphonophorous hydrozoans, of the family Hippopodiidæ, related to Diphyes, but having more than two nectocalyxes of characteristic hippocrepiform Structure.
- noun [I. c] In botany, in gasteromycetous fungi, the chambered part of the fructification, upon the walls of whose cavities the spores are borne. Also
glebula .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The chambered sporogenous tissue forming the central mass of the sporophore in puff balls, stinkhorns, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun mycology The
fleshy , spore-bearing inner mass of certainfungi .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Hymenium on the surface of the gleba which is enclosed within the peridium up to the maturity of the spores or longer; spores continuous, sphæroid or ellipsoid, hyaline or colored.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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Si raro desuper pluvia descendat, si terra situ pulveris squalleat, si vix jejunas et pallidas heibas sterilis gleba producat, si turbo vineam debilitet, &c. Cypr.
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Rhenique nodos aureamque nitellam; fragravit ore quod rosarium Paesti, quod Atticarum prima mella cerarum, quod sucinorum rapta de manu gleba; cui conparatus indecens erat pavo, inamabilis sciurus et frequens phoenix, adhuc recenti tepet Erotion busto, quam pessimorum lex amara fatorum sexta peregit hieme, nec tamen tota, nostros amores gaudiumque lususque.
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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He reduced the expenses of the treasury and Court, and did away with the gleba, or follis, an opressive tax on property that was specially obnoxious to the upper classes.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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Glebe (Lat. gleba) originally signified, in common law, any farm, estate, or parcel of land, and the word is so used in the Theodosian
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Rhenique nodos aureamque nitellam; 35 fragrauit ore, quod rosarium Paesti, quod Atticarum prima mella cerarum, quod sucinorum rapta de manu gleba; cui comparatus indecens erat pauo, inamabilis sciurus et frequens phoenix: 40 adhuc recenti tepet Erotion busto, quam pessimorum lex amara fatorum sexta peregit hieme, nec tamen tota, nostros amores gaudiumque lususque. et esse tristem me meus uetat Paetus, 45 pectusque pulsans pariter et comam uellens:
In Memoriam Martial 1912
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This runs off and is washed off by the rains, leaving the inner surface of the gleba exposed, and showing certain characters peculiar to the various genera.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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This pushes the gleba and the upper part of the receptacle through the apex of the volva, leaving this as a cup-shaped body at the base, much as in certain species of _Amanita_, while the gleba is borne aloft on the much elongated stem.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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Plants membranaceous, leathery or fleshy, furnished with a peridium and gleba, the latter being sometimes supported on a receptacle.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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During this elongation of the receptacle a large part of the substance of the gleba dissolves into a thick liquid containing the spores.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc. George Francis Atkinson 1886
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