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from The Century Dictionary.
- Forming spores endogenously within a cell or spore-cavity: in bacteriology, opposed to arthrosporous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Bot.) Having the spores contained in a case; -- applied to fungi.
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- adjective botany Having the
spores contained in acase ; applied tofungi .
Etymologies
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endo- + -sporous
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