spore (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *spore*:
NOUN	plant	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

spore > pronunciation
Sounds	spao'r
Rhymes	abhor ... Zocor: 121 rhymes with aor...

English > *spore*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
Meaning	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.
Example	"a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes"
Narrower	aeciospore	spore of a rust fungus formed in an aecium
	ascospore	sexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus
	basidiospore	A sexually produced fungal spore borne on a basidium
	carpospore	A nonmotile spore of red algae
	chlamydospore	Thick-walled asexual resting spore of certain fungi and algae
	conidium, conidiospore	An asexually produced fungal spore formed on a conidiophore
	endospore	A small asexual spore that develops inside the cell of some bacteria and algae
	fern seed	The asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust
	megaspore, macrospore	larger / larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants
	microspore	smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants
	oospore	A thick-walled sexual spore that develops from a fertilized oosphere in some algae and fungi
	pollen	The fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant
	resting spore	A spore of certain algae or fungi that lies dormant
	tetraspore	One of the four asexual spores produced within a sporangium
	zoospore	An asexual spore of some algae and fungi that moves by means of flagella
	zygospore	A plant spore formed by two similar sexual cells
Broader	agamete	An asexual reproductive cell
Spanish	espora
Catalan	espora
Adjectives	sporogenous	producing spores or reproducing by means of spores

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