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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany: A name restricted by some to the reproductive organs or so-called spores which are borne upon and detached from a promycelium; by others also given to the spores produced in asci or ascospores.
  • noun A spore, See promycelium.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A secondary spore, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi.
  • noun A spore.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun botany A secondary spore, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi.
  • noun A spore.

Etymologies

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New Latin. See spore.

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