Definition of spore

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Spore (n.) One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species..

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Sporran :: Sporozoid (n.) Same as Zoospore.
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..
Oosporic :: Oosporic (a.) Of or pertaining to an oospore.
Acrospore :: Acrospore (n.) A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.
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..
Urn :: Urn (n.) A hollow body shaped like an urn, in which the spores of mosses are contained; a spore case; a theca..
Spermatospore :: Spermatospore (n.) Same as Spermospore.
Heterosporous :: Heterosporous (a.) Producing two kinds of spores unlike each other.
Sporification :: Sporiferous (a.) Bearing or producing spores.
Fructification :: Fructification (n.) The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores..
Microsporic :: Microsporic (a.) Of or pertaining to microspores.
Microspore :: Microspore (n.) One of the exceedingly minute spores found in certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. Macrospore..
Rhodosperm :: Rhodosperm (n.) Any seaweed with red spores.
Spore :: Sporangium (n.) A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc..
Spermospore :: Spermospore (n.) The male germinal or seminal cell, from the breaking up of which the spermoblasts are formed and ultimately the spermatozoids; a spermatospore..
Microzoospore :: Microzoospore (n.) A small motile spore furnished with two vibratile cilia, found in certain green algae..
Paraphysis :: Paraphysis (n.) A minute jointed filament growing among the archegonia and antheridia of mosses, or with the spore cases, etc., of other flowerless plants..
Sporophoric :: Sporophore (n.) That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore..
Zoosporic :: Zoosporic (a.) Of or pertaining to zoospores; of the nature of zoospores.
Uredospore :: Uredospore (n.) The thin-walled summer spore which is produced during the so-called Uredo stage of certain rusts. See (in the Supplement) Uredinales, Heter/cious, etc..
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