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Underspore :: Underspore (v. t.) To raise with a spar, or piece of wood, used as a lever..

Gasteromycetes :: Gasteromycetes (n. pl.) An order of fungi, in which the spores are borne inside a sac called the peridium, as in the puffballs..

Epispore :: Epispore (n.) The thickish outer coat of certain spores.

Puffball :: Puffball (n.) A kind of ball-shaped fungus (Lycoperdon giganteum, and other species of the same genus) full of dustlike spores when ripe; -- called also bullfist, bullfice, puckfist, puff, and puffin..

Zoosporic :: Zoosporic (a.) Of or pertaining to zoospores; of the nature of zoospores.

Conjugation :: Conjugation (n.) A kind of sexual union; -- applied to a blending of the contents of two or more cells or individuals in some plants and lower animals, by which new spores or germs are developed..

Spermosphere :: Spermosphere (n.) A mass or ball of cells formed by the repeated division of a male germinal cell (spermospore), each constituent cell (spermoblast) of which is converted into a spermatozoid; a spermatogemma..

Earthstar :: Earthstar (n.) A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and the inner one forms a ball containing the dustlike spores..

Sporification :: Sporiferous (a.) Bearing or producing spores.

Encystment :: Encystment (n.) A process which, among some of the lower forms of life, precedes reproduction by budding, fission, spore formation, etc..

Teleutospore :: Teleutospore (n.) The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer. See Illust. of Uredospore..

Zonate :: Zonate (a.) Divided by parallel planes; as, zonate tetraspores, found in certain red algae..

Fructification :: Fructification (n.) The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores..

Cryptogamia :: Cryptogamia (n.) The series or division of flowerless plants, or those never having true stamens and pistils, but propagated by spores of various kinds..

Endosporous :: Endosporous (a.) Having the spores contained in a case; -- applied to fungi.

Prothallus :: Prothallus (n.) The minute primary growth from the spore of ferns and other Pteridophyta, which bears the true sexual organs; the oophoric generation of ferns, etc..

Basidium :: Basidium (n.) A special oblong or pyriform cell, with slender branches, which bears the spores in that division of fungi called Basidiomycetes, of which the common mushroom is an example..

Pycnidium :: Pycnidium (n.) In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced..

Sphaerospore :: Sphaerospore (n.) One of the nonsexual spores found in red algae; a tetraspore.

Hyphomycetes :: Hyphomycetes (n. pl.) One of the great division of fungi, containing those species which have naked spores borne on free or only fasciculate threads..

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