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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Phycomater :: Phycomater (n.) A gelatin in which the algae spores have been supposed to vegetate.
Zygospore :: Zygospore (n.) A spore formed by the union of several zoospores; -- called also zygozoospore.
Fructification :: Fructification (n.) The process of producing fruit, or seeds, or spores..
Spermatospore :: Spermatospore (n.) Same as Spermospore.
Swarmspore :: Swarmspore (n.) One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algae and fungi; a zoospore..
Spore :: Sporangium (n.) A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc..
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..
Phaeospore :: Phaeospore (n.) A brownish zoospore, characteristic of an order (Phaeosporeae) of dark green or olive-colored algae..
Oosporic :: Oosporic (a.) Of or pertaining to an oospore.
Oospore :: Oospore (n.) A fertilized oosphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.
Microsporangium :: Microsporangium (n.) A sporangium or conceptacle containing only very minute spores. Cf. Macrosporangium.
Oophoridium :: Oophoridium (n.) The macrosporangium or case for the larger kind of spores in heterosporous flowerless plants.
Epispore :: Epispore (n.) The thickish outer coat of certain spores.
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..
Conidium :: Conidium (n.) A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoospores..
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..
Oogonium :: Oogonium (n.) A special cell in certain cryptogamous plants containing oospheres, as in the rockweeds (Fucus), and the orders Vaucherieae and Peronosporeae..
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..
Sporification :: Sporiferous (a.) Bearing or producing spores.
Blastophore :: Blastophore (n.) That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them..
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