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n. A small, usually single-celled reproductive body that is highly resistant to desiccation and heat and is capable of growing into a new organism, produced especially by certain bacteria, fungi, algae, and nonflowering plants.

n. A dormant nonreproductive body formed by certain bacteria in response to adverse environmental conditions.

verb-intransitive. To produce spores.

n. A reproductive particle, usually a single cell, released by a fungus, alga, or plant that may germinate into another.

n. A thick resistant particle produced by a bacterium or protist to survive in harsh or unfavorable conditions.

v. To produce spores.

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

n. An embryo sac or embryonal vesicle in the ovules of flowering plants.

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n. A minute grain or germ; a small, round or ovoid body, formed in certain organisms, and by germination giving rise to a new organism

n. One of the parts formed by fission in certain Protozoa. See Spore formation, belw.

n. A. Middle English form of spur.

n. In botany, a single cell which becomes free and is capable of developing directly into a new morphologically and physiologically independent individual.

n. In zoology, the seed or germ of an organism, of minute size, and not of the morphological value of a cell, such as one of the microscopic bodies into which the substance of many protozoans is resolved in the process of reproduction by sporation; a sporule; a gemmule, as of a sponge.

n. In biology, an organic body of extremely minute size, and not subject to ordinary classification; a sporozoid or zoöspore; a living germ, as a seed of certain diseases.

n. Figuratively, a germ; a seed; a source of being.

n. 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

"Here are Shiitakes growing in spore-enriched soil bricks, one of the common ways they are cultivated."

spored    spores    sporing   

agamete   

cystocarpic spore    helicoid    cellular spore    multilocular    winter spore    summer spore    pollen    gemma    seed    bulb   

aplanospore    meiospore    homosporous    heterosporous    ascospore    basidiospore   

endospore    microspore    megaspore    ascospore    aeciospore    zygospore    zoospore    fern seed    carpospore    chlamydospore   

cell   

Boer    Bohr    C4    Dior    Dore    Flore    Fore    Gabor    Gore    Igor   

toxin    bacteria    microorganisms    pollen    microbe    germ    fungus    virus    parasite    contaminant