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Word Meanings - SPORANGIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.

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  • 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
  • PHAEOSPORE
    A brownish zoöspore, characteristic of an order of dark green or olive-colored algæ. -- Phæ`o*spor"ic, a.
  • EPISPORE
    The thickish outer coat of certain spores.
  • 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.
  • EXOSPORE
    The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore.
  • ACROSPORE
    A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.
  • 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.
  • ISOSPORE
    One of the spores produced by an isosporous organism. A zygospore.
  • MACROSPORE
    One of the specially large spores of certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella, etc.
  • TETRASPORE
    A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds. -- Tet`ra*spor"ic, a.
  • SWARMSPORE
    One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algæ and fungi; a zoöspore.
  • MICROZOOSPORE; MICROZOOESPORE
    A small motile spore furnished with two vibratile cilia, found in certain green algæ.
  • CRYPTOGAMIAN; CRYPTOGAMIC; CRYPTOGAMOUS
    Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series. (more info) Cryp*to"gam*ous a.
  • PSEUDOSPORE
    A peculiar reproductive cell found in some fungi.
  • PERISPORE
    The outer covering of a spore.
  • ASCOSPORE
    One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi.
  • ENDOSPORE
    The thin inner coat of certain spores.
  • SPERMATOSPORE
    See SPERMOSPORE
  • UNDERSPORE
    To raise with a spar, or piece of wood, used as a lever. Give me a staff that I may underspore. Chaucer.

 

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