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IPA transcription: [s'pɔɹz]
Pronunciation variants: [s'pɔɹz][s'pɚz]
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Noun
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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”
Usage examples
- The production of viable ascospores depends on successful recombinational repair during meiosis.
- Because it eats fungi, it spreads fungal spores in its droppings.
- The puffball fungus "Calvatia gigantea" has been calculated to produce about five trillion basidiospores.
- Kirk is soon the last one aboard, and inadvertently gets covered by the spores.
- A young girl wearing a yellow dress standing in what appears to be the middle of a field blowing upon a flower distributing its spores everywhere
- The chlamydospores have been classified in the genus "Ugola", which is an anamorphic name.
- Among other properties, diethyl sulfite inhibits the growth of mold spores during grain storage.
- They stain gram negative and are not known to produce spores.
- Spores are asexual reproductive bodies of ferns, mosses and fungi.
- Also, endospores are dormant, while new "Epulopiscium" cells are active.