NOUN | plant | carpospore | a nonmotile spore of red algae |
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Meaning | A nonmotile spore of red algae. | |
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Part of | red algae | marine algae in which the chlorophyll is masked by a red or purplish pigment |
Broader | spore | A 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 |
Spanish | carpospora, carpospore | |
Catalan | carpòspora, carpospore | |
Adjectives | carposporic | relating to or resembling a carpospore |
carposporous | having carpospores |
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