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Definition of Sporal
1. of, pertaining to, or resembling a spore [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sporal
Literary usage of Sporal
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1903)
"pole, and within this very resistent and impervious envelope the eight sporozoites
are packed lengthways round the centrally placed sporal residuum. ..."
2. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria by Royal Society of Victoria (Melbourne, Vic.), Royal Society of Victoria (1893)
"Apothecia with opaque, and capitulum small, sporal mass white, ... sporal mass
black, abundant, often much protruded and connecting the apothecia Spores ..."
3. A Glossary of Botanic Terms: With Their Derivation and Accent by Benjamin Daydon Jackson (1900)
"Aro'ma (Lat., spice), the perfume of a plant ; aromat'ic, -сия, possessing a
spicy smell or taste. Arrest', sporal, see sporal ARREST. ..."
4. Annals and Magazine of Natural History by William Jardine (1868)
"a white corpuscle, which, towards the septum separating the cells, in most spores
stretched out the sporal wall on one side. Thence I sometimes saw a white ..."
5. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania by Royal Society of Tasmania (1891)
"Apothecia with the spores naked, collected into a sporal mass on the surface,
Spores 8 in theca. GENUS 1. CALICIUM. Ach. Nyl. Thallus filmy, granulose ..."
6. The Intellectual Observer (1864)
"... being surrounded by the sporal membrane, which consists also of two rings of
cells, the outer one containing green granules, the inner pellucid; ..."
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