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Microsporangium :: Microsporangium (n.) A sporangium or conceptacle containing only very minute spores. Cf. Macrosporangium.

Diaspore :: Diaspore (n.) A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe..

Vegetable :: Vegetable (v.) Plants without true flowers, and reproduced by minute spores of various kinds, or by simple cell division..

Spore :: Sporangium (n.) A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc..

Gemmule :: Gemmule (n.) One of the reproductive spores of algae.

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..

Endospore :: Endospore (n.) The thin inner coat of certain spores.

Uredo :: Uredo (n.) One of the stages in the life history of certain rusts (Uredinales), regarded at one time as a distinct genus. It is a summer stage preceding the teleutospore, or winter stage. See Uredinales, in the Supplement..

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

Angiocarpous :: Angiocarpous (a.) Having the seeds or spores covered, as in certain lichens..

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

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

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..

Oospore :: Oospore (n.) A special kind of spore resulting from the fertilization of an oosphere by antherozoids.

Spore :: Spore (n.) An embryo sac or embryonal vesicle in the ovules of flowering plants.

Sporid :: Spore (n.) One of the parts formed by fission in certain Protozoa. See Spore formation, belw..

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

Isosporic :: Isosporic (a.) Producing but one kind of spore, as the ferns and Equiseta. Cf. Heterosporic..

Macrozoospore :: Macrozoospore (n.) A large motile spore having four vibratile cilia; -- found in certain green algae.

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

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