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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The inner layer of the wall of a spore.
- noun An asexual spore developed within a cell, as that formed by some bacteria.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the inner coat of a spore, corresponding to the intine of a pollen-grain. Compare epispore, exospore.
- noun In bacteriology, a spore formed within a cell, as distinguished from
arthrospore . - noun Also
endosporium .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The thin inner coat of certain spores.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
inner layer of aspore - noun A small
vegetative spore produced by somebacteria
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small asexual spore that develops inside the cell of some bacteria and algae
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Examples
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I can form an 'endospore', a little coating that protects me.
Bacillus subtilis Emma Lurie 2007
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I can form an 'endospore', a little coating that protects me.
Archive 2007-01-01 Emma Lurie 2007
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When I'm in my endospore I can survive very high temperatures.
Bacillus subtilis Emma Lurie 2007
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When I'm in my endospore I can survive very high temperatures.
Archive 2007-01-01 Emma Lurie 2007
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The true spore or endospore begins with the appearance of a minute granule in the protoplasm of a vegetative cell; this granule enlarges and in a few hours has taken to itself all the protoplasm, secreted a thin but very resistive envelope, and is a ripe ovoid spore, smaller than the mother-cell and lying loosely in it (cf.figs. 6, 9, 10, and 11).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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Nor must we overlook the possibility that the endospore-formation in non-motile bacteria more than merely resembles the development of azygospores in the Conjugatae, and some Ulothricaceae, if reduced in size, would resemble them.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various
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The bacterial endospore (spore) has recently been proposed as a new surface display system.
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The bacterial endospore (spore) has recently been proposed as a new surface display system.
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The bacterial endospore (spore) has recently been proposed as a new surface display system.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Krzysztof Hinc 2010
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Its "capture and destroy" approach using the company's proprietary plasma technology will kill 99.999% of trapped bacteria and viruses, and 99.99% of hard to destroy bacterial endospore microorganisms.
News 2010
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