noun. 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.

noun. A megaspore or microspore.

noun. 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.

intransitive verb. To produce spores.

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

noun. 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.

noun. 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.

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

noun. A. Middle English form of spur.

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

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

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

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

noun. The formation of reproductive cells or spores, as in the growth of bacilli.

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

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

verb. To produce spores.

noun. 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."

bulb  cellular spore  cystocarpic spore  gemma  helicoid  

aplanospore  ascospore  basidiospore  heterosporous  homosporous  

agamete  

aeciospore  ascospore  basidiospore  carpospore  chlamydospore  

Boer  Bohr  C4  Dior  Dore  

algae  bacilli  bacteria  bacterium  contaminant  

adenovirus  aerobe  aerobic bacteria  amoeba  anaerobe  

spored  spores  sporing