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Definition of Spore

1. Noun. 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. "A sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes"

Definition of Spore

1. n. One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species.

Definition of Spore

1. Noun. A reproductive particle, usually a single cell, released by a fungus, alga, or plant that may germinate into another. ¹

2. Noun. A thick resistant particle produced by a bacterium or protist to survive in harsh or unfavorable conditions. ¹

3. Verb. To produce spores. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Spore

1. to produce spores (asexual, usually single-celled reproductive bodies) [v SPORED, SPORING, SPORES]

Medical Definition of Spore

1. Highly resistant dehydrated form of reproductive cell produced under conditions of environmental stress. Usually have very resistant cell walls (integument) and low metabolic rate until activated. Bacterial spores may survive quite extraordinary extremes of temperature, dehydration or chemical insult. Gives rise to a new individual without fusion with another cell. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

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Literary usage of Spore

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"The presence of the annulus or ring around the spore-case, in some form, either completely surrounding it, or In a more or less rudimentary condition, ..."

2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"A spore from the fern plant, falling on moist ground or rotten wood, ... As the sporangium approaches maturity, spore mother cells are formed (Fig. ..."

3. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"THE spore-PRODUCING MEMBERS. So far only the vegetative organs have been considered in this summary of results; the reason for this is that they appear the ..."

4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The spore-fruit is In the form of a large cyst which encloses a quantity of the ... Each spore (chlamydospore) liberates on germination a single nucleated ..."

5. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"This spore- bearing axis (sporophyte) develops roots below and becomes ... The sporophytes are solid-stemmed, usually producing large spore-bearing leaves, ..."

6. On the Germination, Development, and Fructification of the Higher by Wilhelm Friedrich Benedict Hofmeister, Frederick Currey (1862)
"A few weeks after the spore has become free by the decay of the walls of the ... If a spore which is not yet entirely filled with closed parenchyma be ..."

7. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1902)
"This note on some of the factors concerned in its spore- formation is ... These cells all became fused together so that the spore was partially invested. ..."

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