Meaning

1 senses
  1. The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of certain fungi.

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

Origin

Borrowed from Latin glēba (“lump, mass”). Doublet of glebe.

Borrowed from Latin glēba (“lump, mass”). Doublet of glebe.

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: glebae
Singulargleba
Pluralglebae

irregular · Lesson

Word family

3 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
gleba — meaning, examples, forms, synonyms | Krumeto