Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A spore formed within an ascus.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, one of a cluster of spores borne within an ascus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi. [See
Illust. ofascus .]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology A
sexually producedspore from theascus of anAscomycetes fungus
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun sexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus
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Examples
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First, the prolific ascospore stage is very important in causing the spread of the blight, the spores at this stage being forcibly ejected from the pustules and borne through the air for some distance.
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Second, the wind plays a large part in local ascospore dissemination.
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There is a winter spore stage, or technically, the ascospore stage, which comes, as
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With dry soils inhibiting germination of sclerotia, and the survival of apothecia, ascospore release should have been low.
FWi - All News 2009
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With dry soils inhibiting germination of sclerotia, and the survival of apothecia, ascospore release should have been low.
FWi - All News 2009
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With dry soils inhibiting germination of sclerotia, and the survival of apothecia, ascospore release should have been low.
FWi - All News 2009
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With dry soils inhibiting germination of sclerotia, and the survival of apothecia, ascospore release should have been low.
FWi - All News 2009
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With dry soils inhibiting germination of sclerotia, and the survival of apothecia, ascospore release should have been low.
FWi - All News 2009
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With dry soils inhibiting germination of sclerotia, and the survival of apothecia, ascospore release should have been low.
FWi - All News 2009
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With dry soils inhibiting germination of sclerotia, and the survival of apothecia, ascospore release should have been low.
FWi - All News 2009
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