| 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. |
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| Example | "a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes" |
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| Narrower | aeciospore | spore of a rust fungus formed in an aecium |
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| 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 |
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| Spanish | espora |
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| Catalan | espora |
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| Adjectives | sporogenous | producing spores or reproducing by means of spores |
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