Definition of Sporoid

1. resembling a spore [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sporoid

sporocysts
sporocyte
sporocytes
sporodochium
sporogeneses
sporogenesis
sporogenetic
sporogenic
sporogenous
sporogonia
sporogonic
sporogonies
sporogonium
sporoid (current term)
sporont
sporophores
sporophoric
sporophyl
sporophyll
sporophylls
sporophyls
sporophytes
sporophytic
sporoplasm
sporopollenin
sporopollenins

Literary usage of Sporoid

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

1. Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science edited by Biologists Limited, The Company of. (1881)
"Amoeba containing sporoid bodies x 1000. cases still active, and only differed from their compeers in not being provided with a distinct nucleus, ..."

2. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, Exhibiting a View of the Progressive by Robert Jameson, Sir William Jardine, Henry D Rogers (1858)
"When placed in favourable condition, these separable spores or sporoid cells sprout ... Here, then, the analogy with buds will not hold, for the sporoid bud ..."

3. The Sanitarian by Medico-Legal Society of New York (1894)
"These delicate elements are spores in different stages of development—sporoid cells, ... The spores and sporoid cells, to the number of eight, ten, or more, ..."

4. Transactions of the Botanical Society by Botanical Society of Edinburgh (1850)
"The appendage termed ' suspensor' is worthy of notice; it is usually very highly developed in the sporoid embryo; and more so in some plants than in others; ..."

5. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville Kent (1880)
"... the sporoid body or embryo commences life as an undoubted simple cell, and retains this same morphological simplicity for the remainder of its existence ..."

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