Gleba, the spore-bearing tissue, as in puffballs and phalloids.
This genus includes puffballs with apical openings and is divided into two series, a purple-spored and an olive-spored series.
The chambers are called the gleba and this is surrounded by the peridium or rind, which in different puffballs exhibits various characteristic ways of opening to let the spores escape.
All our puffballs when young and solid white inside are good, wholesome food.
We gathered some puffballs to soak for breakfast and in a clearing I found some blackberry bushes.
It was when we were ready to cook the puffballs that we missed the kettle!
We had more rabbit for supper, with some puffballs smoked and a few huckleberries.
He blundered through a screen of puffballs that shot dusty powder toward the sky.
And the red-dust puffballswere scattered everywhere.
There were red puffballs to southward, therefore he ruled out that direction.
Before the menace of the red puffballs developed, he had brought them to the point of killing ants, with him present and ready to assist.
The eggs of the caterpillars had been laid before the puffballs were ready to burst.
Burl's folk saw many of the red puffballs burst during the day.
Months ago a storm-wind blew while somewhere, not too far distant, other red puffballs were bursting and sending their spores into the air.
Puffballs they were familiar with--big, misshapen things which shot at a touch a powder into the air.
He expected the others to realize where they were when they dodged around a clump of the new red puffballs and saw bald rock before them and a falling-away to emptiness beyond.
Burl led his people into the plain of red puffballs as soon as the rain had lasted long enough to wash down the red haze still hanging in the air and turn the fallen spores to mud.
There had been a time when there were no red puffballs here.
With thousands of the puffballs around them it was unthinkable that any human in this place could escape breathing the red dust and dying.
The red puffballs were certainly no less numerous in the new territory the tribe traversed than in the territory they had left.
That first night the tribe hid among the bases of giant puffballs of a more familiar sort.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "puffballs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
