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

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  • Plants membranaceous, leathery or fleshy, furnished with a peridium and gleba, the latter being sometimes supported on a receptacle.
  • Glebe (Lat. gleba) originally signified, in common law, any farm, estate, or parcel of land, and the word is so used in the Theodosian
  • During this elongation of the receptacle a large part of the substance of the gleba dissolves into a thick liquid containing the spores.
  • 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.
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