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GLEBA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn
Classified under:
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)
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