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spore
(spôr)n.
1. A small, usually single-celled reproductive body that is resistant to adverse environmental conditions and is capable of growing into a new organism, produced especially by certain fungi, algae, protozoans, and nonseedbearing plants such as mosses and ferns.
2. A megaspore or microspore.
3. A dormant nonreproductive body formed by certain bacteria often in response to a lack of nutrients, and characteristically being highly resistant to heat, desiccation, and destruction by chemicals or enzymes.
intr.v. spored, spor·ing, spores
To produce spores.
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spore
(spɔː)n
1. (Biology) a reproductive body, produced by bacteria, fungi, various plants, and some protozoans, that develops into a new individual. A sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes and an asexual spore is the result of asexual reproduction
2. (Biology) a germ cell, seed, dormant bacterium, or similar body
vb
(Biology) (intr) to produce, carry, or release spores
[C19: from New Latin spora, from Greek: a sowing; related to Greek speirein to sow]
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spore
(spɔr, spoʊr)n., v. spored, spor•ing. n.
1. the asexual reproductive body of a fungus or nonflowering plant.
2. the resting or dormant stage of a bacterium or other microorganism.
v.i. 3. to produce or shed spores.
[1830–40; < New Latin spora < Greek sporá sowing, seed, akin to speírein to sow; compare sperm1]
-spore
var. of sporo-: teliospore.
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spore
(spôr)1. A usually one-celled reproductive body that can grow into a new organism without uniting with another cell. Spores have only a single set of chromosomes. Fungi, algae, plants that do not bear seeds, and certain protozoans reproduce asexually by spores.
2. A similar one-celled body in seed-bearing plants that develops into either the embryo sac or a pollen grain.
3. A rounded, inactive form that certain bacteria assume under conditions of extreme temperature, dryness, or lack of food. The bacterium develops a waterproof cell wall that protects it from being dried out or damaged.
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spore
Past participle: spored
Gerund: sporing
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spore
A small reproductive body from which a new organism can grow, such as in nonflowering plants, certain bacteria, algae, and fungi.
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| Noun | 1. |  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; "a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes"agamete - an asexual reproductive cell basidiospore - a sexually produced fungal spore borne on a basidium endospore - a small asexual spore that develops inside the cell of some bacteria and algae carpospore - a nonmotile spore of red algae chlamydospore - thick-walled asexual resting spore of certain fungi and algae conidiospore, conidium - an asexually produced fungal spore formed on a conidiophore oospore - a thick-walled sexual spore that develops from a fertilized oosphere in some algae and fungi resting spore - a spore of certain algae or fungi that lies dormant; may germinate after a prolonged period 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 fern seed - the asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust; once thought to be seeds and to make the possessor invisible pollen - the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant microspore - smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in the pollen sac into a male gametophyte macrospore, megaspore - larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte aeciospore - spore of a rust fungus formed in an aecium ascospore - sexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus zygospore - a plant spore formed by two similar sexual cells |
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spore
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Translations
خَلِيَّه وَحيدَه
výtrus
spore
spóra
gró
spora
spora
výtrus
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spore
n → Spore f
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spore
(spoː) noun a tiny seedlike cell from which ferns and other types of non-flowering plant grow.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
spore
n. espora, célula reproductiva unicelular.
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spore
n esporaEnglish-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.