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

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..

Apogamy :: Apogamy (n.) The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oospore.

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

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..

Lid :: Lid (n.) The cover of the spore cases of mosses.

Zoosporangium :: Zoosporangium (n.) A spore, or conceptacle containing zoospores..

Zygosperm :: Zygosperm (n.) A spore formed by the union of the contents of two similar cells, either of the same or of distinct individual plants. Zygosperms are found in certain orders of algae and fungi..

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

Basidiospore :: Basidiospore (n.) A spore borne by a basidium.

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..

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

Sporidium :: Sporidium (n.) A secondary spore, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi..

Thecasporous :: Thecasporous (a.) Having the spores in thecae, or cases..

Ovum :: Ovum (n.) A more or less spherical and transparent mass of granular protoplasm, which by a process of multiplication and growth develops into a mass of cells, constituting a new individual like the parent; an egg, spore, germ, or germ cell. See Illust. of Mycropyle..

Sporule :: Sporulation (n.) The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus, b..

Tetraspore :: Tetraspore (n.) A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds..

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..

Lichen :: Lichen (n.) One of a class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called Lichenes), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of scaly, expanded, frond-like forms, but sometimes erect or pendulous and variously branched. They derive their nourishment from the air, and generate by means of spores. The species are very widely distributed, and form irregular spots or patches, usually of a greenish or yellowish color, upon rocks, trees, and various bodies, to which they adhere with great

Sporogony :: Sporogenesis (n.) reproduction by spores.

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