Word Meanings - SWARMSPORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algæ and fungi; a zoöspore.

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• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• ASEXUALLY
  In an asexual manner; without sexual agency.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• FUNGIVOROUS
  Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
• FUNGIN
  A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms.
• FUNGIBLES
  Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things. Burrill. (more info) fungi to discharge. "A barbarous term, supposed to have originated in the use of the words functionem
• PRODUCTIVITY
  The quality or state of being productive; productiveness. Emerson. Not indeed as the product, but as the producing power, the productivity. Coleridge.
• PRODUCTUS
  An extinct genus of brachiopods, very characteristic of the Carboniferous rocks.
• MINUTELY
  In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
• CERTAINTY
  Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly. (more info) 1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain. The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes. Fisher Ames. 2. A fact or truth
• FUNGITE
  A fossil coral resembling Fungia.
• FUNGIFORM
  Shaped like a fungus or mushroom. Fungiform papillæ , numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue.
• PRODUCTILE
  Capable of being extended or prolonged; extensible; ductile.
• PRODUCER
  A furnace for producing combustible gas which is used for fuel. (more info) 1. One who produces, brings forth, or generates. 2. One who grows agricultural products, or manufactures crude materials into articles of use.
• FUNGIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Fungidæ, a family of stony corals. -- n.
• PRODUCENT
  One who produces, or offers to notice. Ayliffe.
• CERTAINNESS
  Certainty.
• FUNGILLIFORM
  Shaped like a small fungus.
• MINUTE
  1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.) Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour. Chaucer. 2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds ; as,
• FUNGIA
  A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.
• PHAEOSPORE
  A brownish zoöspore, characteristic of an order of dark green or olive-colored algæ. -- Phæ`o*spor"ic, a.
• ASCERTAINMENT
  The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery. The positive ascertainment of its limits. Burke.
• EPISPORE
  The thickish outer coat of certain spores.
• ASCERTAINABLE
  That may be ascertained. -- As`cer*tain"a*ble*ness, n. -- As`cer*tain"a*bly, adv.
• 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.
• OVERPRODUCTION
  Excessive production; supply beyond the demand. J. S. Mill.
• COMMINUTE
  To reduce to minute particles, or to a fine powder; to pulverize; to triturate; to grind; as, to comminute chalk or bones; to comminute food with the teeth. Pennant. Comminuted fracture. See under Fracture.
• EXOSPORE
  The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore.
• UNCERTAINTY
  1. The quality or state of being uncertain. 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. L'Estrange.
• ACROSPORE
  A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.
• REPRODUCTORY
  Reproductive.
• UNCERTAINLY
  In an uncertain manner.