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Spore

One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species.

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Ascospore 76% connected

One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi. [See Illust. of Ascus.]

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Basidiospore 76% connected

A spore borne by a basidium.

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Carpospore 76% connected

A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algae.

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Conidium 76% connected

A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoospores.

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Endospore 76% connected

The thin inner coat of certain spores.

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Macrospore 76% connected

One of the specially large spores of certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella, etc.

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Microspore 76% connected

One of the exceedingly minute spores found in certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much sm…

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Oospore 76% connected

A special kind of spore resulting from the fertilization of an oosphere by antherozoids.

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Pollen 76% connected

Fine bran or flour.

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Tetraspore 76% connected

A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds.

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Zoospore 76% connected

A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoospores are produced by many green, and by some o…

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Zygospore 76% connected

Same as Zygosperm.

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