spore
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1. 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 (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | agamete, |
| definition | : | an asexual reproductive cell (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | basidiospore, |
| definition | : | a sexually produced fungal spore borne on a basidium (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | endospore, |
| definition | : | a small asexual spore that develops inside the cell of some bacteria and algae (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | carpospore, |
| definition | : | a nonmotile spore of red algae (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | chlamydospore, |
| definition | : | thick-walled asexual resting spore of certain fungi and algae (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | conidiospore, conidium, |
| definition | : | an asexually produced fungal spore formed on a conidiophore (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | oospore, |
| definition | : | a thick-walled sexual spore that develops from a fertilized oosphere in some algae and fungi (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | resting spore, |
| definition | : | a spore of certain algae or fungi that lies dormant; may germinate after a prolonged period (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | tetraspore, |
| definition | : | one of the four asexual spores produced within a sporangium (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | zoospore, |
| definition | : | an asexual spore of some algae and fungi that moves by means of flagella (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | fern seed, |
| definition | : | the asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust; once thought to be seeds and to make the possessor invisible (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | pollen, |
| definition | : | the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | microspore, |
| definition | : | smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in the pollen sac into a male gametophyte (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | macrospore, megaspore, |
| definition | : | larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | aeciospore, |
| definition | : | spore of a rust fungus formed in an aecium (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | ascospore, |
| definition | : | sexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus (noun.plant) |
| hyponym | : | zygospore, |
| definition | : | a plant spore formed by two similar sexual cells (noun.plant) |
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