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Word Meanings - EXOSPORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore.

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  • OUTER
    Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump
  • EPISPORE
    The thickish outer coat of certain spores.
  • EXTREMELESS
    Having no extremes; infinite.
  • OUTERLY
    1. Utterly; entirely. Chaucer. 2. Toward the outside. Grew.
  • EXTREME
    Either of the extreme terms of a syllogism, the middle term being interposed between them. (more info) 1. The utmost point or verge; that part which terminates a body; extremity. 2. Utmost limit or degree that is supposable or tolerable; hence,
  • OUTERMOST
    Being on the extreme external part; farthest outward; as, the outermost row. Boyle.
  • EXTREMELY
    In an extreme manner or state; in the utmost degree; to the utmost point; exceedingly; as, extremely hot or cold.
  • SPORE
    One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species. Note: Spores are produced differently in the different classes of cryptogamous plants, and as regards their nature are often so unlike
  • SHOUTER
    One who shouts.
  • SOUTER
    A shoemaker; a cobbler. Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale.
  • PHAEOSPORE
    A brownish zoöspore, characteristic of an order of dark green or olive-colored algæ. -- Phæ`o*spor"ic, a.
  • DIASPORE
    A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.
  • FLOUTER
    One who flouts; a mocker.
  • PLOUTER
    To wade or move about with splashing; to dabble; also, to potter; trifle; idle. I did not want to plowter about any more. Kipling.
  • TOUTER
    One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the
  • EXOSPORE
    The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore.
  • SOUTERLY
    Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler; hence, vulgar; low.
  • ACROSPORE
    A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.
  • POUTER
    A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, pouts. 2. Etym:
  • TELEUTOSPORE
    The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer. See Illust. of Uredospore.
  • SPHAEROSPORE
    One of the nonsexual spores found in red algæ; a tetraspore.
  • ARTHROSPORE
    A bacterial resting cell, -- formerly considered a spore, but now known to occur even in endosporous bacteria. -- Ar`thro*spor"ic , Ar*thros"po*rous , a.
  • CLOUTERLY
    Clumsy; awkward. Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips.
  • ISOSPORE
    One of the spores produced by an isosporous organism. A zygospore.

 

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