Definitions for gleba

gleba gle·ba

Spelling: [glee-buh]
IPA: /ˈgli bə/

Gleba is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 70 anagrams from letters in gleba (abegl).

Definitions for gleba

noun

  1. the sporogenous tissue forming the central part of the sporophore in certain fungi, as in puffballs and stinkhorns.

Origin of gleba

1840-50; New Latin, Latin glēba clod; see glebe

Examples for gleba

The gleba is composed of semi-persistent cells, plainly seen with a glass or even with the naked eye.

The pileus is conical in shape, and after the disappearance of the gleba the surface of the pileus is merely granular.

Allied to Scleroderma and distinguished by the cavities of the gleba containing distinct peridioles.

When old the gleba consists of a dusty mass of threads and spores.

The peridium is very large, breaking away in fragments when ripe and exposing the gleba.

The microscope shows that the gleba is composed of a great number of spores mixed with simple or branched threads.

The spore-mass or gleba, in its young state, is surrounded by four layers.

Word Value for gleba
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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