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Polysporous :: Polysporous (a.) Containing many spores.

Calyptra :: Calyptra (n.) A little hood or veil, resembling an extinguisher in form and position, covering each of the small flasklike capsules which contain the spores of mosses; also, any similar covering body..

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

Swarmspore :: Swarmspore (n.) One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algae and fungi; a zoospore..

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..

Sterile :: Sterile (a.) Free from reproductive spores or germs; as, a sterile fluid..

Zygospore :: Zygospore (n.) A spore formed by the union of several zoospores; -- called also zygozoospore.

Anthrax :: Anthrax (n.) An infectious disease of cattle and sheep. It is ascribed to the presence of a rod-shaped bacterium (Bacillus anthracis), the spores of which constitute the contagious matter. It may be transmitted to man by inoculation. The spleen becomes greatly enlarged and filled with bacteria. Called also splenic fever..

Brand Spore :: Brand spore () One of several spores growing in a series or chain, and produced by one of the fungi called brand..

Acrospore :: Acrospore (n.) A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.

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

Favella :: Favella (n.) A group of spores arranged without order and covered with a thin gelatinous envelope, as in certain delicate red algae..

Sporocarp :: Sporocarp (n.) A closed body or conceptacle containing one or more masses of spores or sporangia.

Macro- :: Macro- () A combining form signifying long, large, great; as macrodiagonal, macrospore..

Fructification :: Fructification (n.) The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores..

Athalamous :: Athalamous (a.) Not furnished with shields or beds for the spores, as the thallus of certain lichens..

Motile :: Motile (a.) Having powers of self-motion, though unconscious; as, the motile spores of certain seaweeds..

Microzoospore :: Microzoospore (n.) A small motile spore furnished with two vibratile cilia, found in certain green algae..

Quillwort :: Quillwort (n.) Any plant or species of the genus Isoetes, cryptogamous plants with a cluster of elongated four-tubed rushlike leaves, rising from a corm, and containing spores in their enlarged and excavated bases. There are about seventeen American species, usually growing in the mud under still, shallow water. So called from the shape of the shape of the leaves..

Sporran :: Sporozoid (n.) Same as Zoospore.

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