Gleba

noun

1. The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of a puffball.
2. A genus of pteropods.
3. A genus of true siphonophorous hydrozoans, of the family Hippopodiidæ, related to Diphyes, but having more than two nectocalyxes of characteristic hippocrepiform Structure.
4. [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.
5. The chambered sporogenous tissue forming the central mass of the sporophore in puff balls, stinkhorns, etc.