HyperDic: ascospore

English > 1 sense of the word ascospore:
NOUNplantascosporesexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus
English > ascospore: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaningsexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus.
BroadersporeA small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion
Spanishascospora, ascóspora
Catalanascòspora
Adjectivesascosporic, ascosporousof or relating to ascospores

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