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Oospore :: Oospore (n.) A fertilized oosphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.

Hypnocyst :: Hypnocyst (n.) A cyst in which some unicellular organisms temporarily inclose themselves, from which they emerge unchanged, after a period of drought or deficiency of food. In some instances, a process of spore formation seems to occur within such cysts..

Microsporic :: Microsporic (a.) Of or pertaining to microspores.

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

Spermoblast :: Spermoblast (n.) One of the cells formed by the division of the spermospore, each of which is destined to become a spermatozoid; a spermatocyte; a spermatoblast..

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

Carpospore :: Carpospore (n.) A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algae.

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

Rhodosperm :: Rhodosperm (n.) Any seaweed with red spores.

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

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

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..

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

Elater :: Elater (n.) An elastic spiral filament for dispersing the spores, as in some liverworts..

Oogonium :: Oogonium (n.) A special cell in certain cryptogamous plants containing oospheres, as in the rockweeds (Fucus), and the orders Vaucherieae and Peronosporeae..

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..

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

Pseudospore :: Pseudospore (n.) A peculiar reproductive cell found in some fungi.

Selaginella :: Selaginella (n.) A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus. Many species are cultivated in conservatories..

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

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