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(mycology, biology) The creation of spores by cutting off portions of the sporophore by the growth of septa; abstriction.
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(biology) An oomycete spore that functions like an oospore but has been produced asexually.
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(biology) A terminal, inflated cell of a basidiome
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(botany, of a fungus) Having spores that develop at the ends of the hyphae
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A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.
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A microscopic parasite of the class Myxosporea during an alternate stage of its life cycle
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A fungal spore, in the lungs of some animals, that can cause adiaspiromycosis
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(botany) A binucleate spore of a rust fungus, formed in a chainlike series in an aecium.
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(mycology) A cuplike fruiting structure of some parasitic rust fungi that contains chains of aeciospores.
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(biology) A thick-walled, dormant cell found in cyanobacteria and green algae
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(biology) A conidiophore that produces aleurioconidia
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(biology) A thallic conidium formed by the breakdown of the supporting cell
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A nondeciduous chlamydospore
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Any dark or colourless spore that cannot be characterized as any other type
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(biology) The achromatic figure, formed in mitotic cell division, consisting of two asters connected by a spindle-shaped bundle of rod-like fibres diverging from each aster.
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A sporangium for androspores.
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(biology) A spore with male functions, in some algae.
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(biology) A form of meiosis in which an unusual number of spores (or megaspores) are formed
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(botany) Having spores contained in cells or thecae.
adj
(mycology) Used to describe spores which are angular and have prominent bumps or growths protruding at the angles.
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(mycology) Used to describe spores which are angular and have small bumps or growths protruding at the angles.
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(biology) A sexual spore in which the sexes differ in size.
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Not isosporous; being an anisospore, or producing anisospores.
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A specialized conidiogenous cell that grows as it extrudes material.
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(botany) Structure in a fern that consists of differentially thick-walled cells on a sporangium that bend and distort as a result of drying.
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(biology) A gametophore that bears antheridia (typically in a moss or liverwort)
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(botany, mycology) An organ producing male gametes called antherozoids, found in some algae, ferns, and bryophytes.
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(mycology) A small pore in the outer wall of a fungal spore which is located at the spore apex, opposite the hilar appendage and used for germination.
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(mycology) The part of a spore which attaches to the sterigmata at the end of a basidium.
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A non-motile gamete found in certain lower algae.
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An immobile spore that may nevertheless potentially grow flagella.
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(biology) The ability of a plant's sporophytes to form a plant that looks like a gametophyte but has the ploidy level of the sporophyte.
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(lichenology & mycology) A type of fructification of some ascomycete fungi, forming cyst structures of various shapes. Often the fungal components of lichens have this sort of fertile structure.
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(mycology) A bulbous formation produced by parasitic fungi that is well attached to the cuticle of the host and from where a peg-shaped hypha is formed that penetrates the cuticle.
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Alternative form of archesporial [Relating to the archesporia, cells of the sporangium that give rise to spores.]
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Alternative form of archesporium [(botany) Any of the cells of the sporangium that give rise to spores.]
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Any organism having archegonia.
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(botany) A multicellular reproductive structure that contains a large, non-motile gamete (egg cell), and within which an embryo will develop.
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Alternative form of archespore [(biology) A group of cells from which microspores or megaspores develop]
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(biology) A group of cells from which microspores or megaspores develop
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(botany) Any of the cells of the sporangium that give rise to spores.
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The female reproductive structure of an ascomycete.
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(mycology) A tessellation in the thallus of certain lichens.
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(mycology) A kind of asexual fungal spore, typically produced by segmentation of pre-existing fungal hyphae.
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A sporelike cell produced by some fungi and algae.
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Relating to arthrospores.
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(mycology) The sporocarp of an ascomycete, typically bowl-shaped.
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Any fungus of the genus Ascochyta.
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Any phialosporous fungus of the genus Ascoconidium
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The production of ascomata or ascospores
adj
(mycology) That grows from the ascogonium of a fungus
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(mycology) The spiral female organ of an ascomycetous fungus from which asci are produced
adj
for fungi, describing ascocarps having asci arranged in pre-formed locules, or cavities within a stoma.
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(mycology) Any fungus of the phylum Ascomycota, characterized by the production of a sac, or ascus, which contains non-motile spores.
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(biology) A sexually produced spore from the ascus of an Ascomycetes fungus
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The formation and development of ascospores
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(biology) That produces ascospores
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(biology) A fungal fruiting body in which the asci develop within a stroma
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(mycology) A sac-shaped cell present in ascomycete fungi; it is a reproductive cell in which meiosis and an additional cell division produce eight spores.
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(mycology) A spore that is produced asexually.
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Not producing (or produced by) spores
adj
(botany) That does not produce spores
adj
(botany) That does not produce spores
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In algae, a filament of cells involved with photosynthesis, usually full of chloroplasts.
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(mycology) An annulus which is fixed to the stem of a mushroom and is not movable.
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(mycology) Synonym of holobasidium
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A sporangium for autospores
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An immobile spore that cannot develop flagella.
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(biology) A reproductive spore in diatoms that is formed by the union of two cells
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(biology) To undergo auxosporulation
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The formation of an auxospore by gametic fusion or autogamy
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A small rod-like structure found in spores and pollen.
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Synonym of endospore (“vegetative spore”)
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Synonym of ballistospore
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(mycology) A spore that is ejected or shot off.
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(mycology) A fleshy mass of tissue located at the junction of the a mushroom and its substrate.
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(mycology) A mushroom which has basidia.
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(mycology) An immature or aborted basidium; similar in shape but smaller in size.
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(mycology) Any fungus of the phylum Basidiomycota, that produces sexual spores on a basidium.
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Any fungus of the division Basidiomycota
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(biology) A sexually reproductive spore produced by fungi of the phylum Basidiomycota.
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(mycology) A small structure, shaped like a club, found in the Basidiomycota division of fungi, that bears four spores at the tips of small projections. [from 19th c.]
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Alternative form of basidiocarp [(mycology) A mushroom which has basidia.]
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Alternative form of diaspore [A natural hydrate of aluminium, sometimes forming stalactites.]
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(biology) Either of a pair of asexual spores produced by some red algae
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(mycology) A holoblastic conidium that is produced singly or in chains, and detached at maturity leaving a bud scar
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(biology, obsolete) That portion of the spermatospore which is not converted into spermatoblasts, but carries them.
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(mycology) A type of fungal spore produced asexually by budding.
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(mycology) A cell that resembles a basidiole but is larger and more inflated.
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(botany) A sclereid that occurs in the stems (and some fruit) of plants
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An outgrowth of an ascospore that has a terminal conidium
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A mass of sterile fibers within a fruiting body interspersed among spores.
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(botany) A sporangium, especially in bryophytes.
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An organelle, in some liverworts, that carries the spore cases
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(biology) The female organ in the red algae (Rhodophyta), having an elongated process which is the receptive organ for the male gametes
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(mycology) The stem of the fruiting body in higher fungi.
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(biology) The egg of a red alga
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(biology) A sporangium (that contains carpospores) in red algae, a cluster of which forms the cystocarp
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A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algae.
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An algal sporophyte that is part of a sporocarp
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(biology) The opening in the cystocarp of red algae through which the spores are discharged
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A fruiting layer in some fungi
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(phycology) In macroalgae in the Rhodomelaceae family, the urn-shaped envelope surrounding the sporogenous filaments of the cystocarp
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A multicellular conidium that somewhat resembles a hand
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(biology) That secretes chitin
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A thick-walled spore that is the resting stage of some bacteria.
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(Mycology) A mucus-bound ribbon-like mass of spores exuded from a fungus.
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(mycology) A structure formed in the hyphae of some basidiomycetes that ensures genetic variation among hyphal cells.
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(botany) A closed ascocarp, in some fungi, from which spores are released following decay or disintegration
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A megaspore that has four nuclei formed by meiosis
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(mycology) The central sterile portion of the sporangium in various fungi.
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The germinated form of a carpospore
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The generation and development of conidia
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Alternative form of conidiogenous [(cytology) That promotes conidiogenesis in fungi.]
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The production of conidia by fungal cells.
adj
(cytology) That promotes conidiogenesis in fungi.
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A specialized macroscopic fruiting structure containing masses of conidia.
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A fungal hypha that produces conidia.
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(biology) A unicellular spore produced asexually by a fungus
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(mycology) A fungal spore produced asexually in a conidiophore.
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(mycology) The trama or flesh of a mushroom.
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Any plant that reproduces using spores (rather than seeds), formerly placed in the taxonomic group Cryptogamae, which included ferns, mosses, algae, fungi, lichens and liverworts.
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Alternative form of cryptogam [Any plant that reproduces using spores (rather than seeds), formerly placed in the taxonomic group Cryptogamae, which included ferns, mosses, algae, fungi, lichens and liverworts.]
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A sporelike organic-walled microfossil (palynomorph) that most typically occurs in tightly adherent tetrads or dyads, which is considered to be derived from early land plants (embryophyte) or their immediate algal (streptophyte) ancestors.
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(mycology) A relatively large cell found on the hymenium of a basidiomycete
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A minute vesicle in some seaweeds, containing the reproductive spores.
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A zoospore within a cyst of a chytrid
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A form of chlamydospore that has internal septa
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A multicellular spore, produced by fungi, that has both transverse and longitudinal septa
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A form of dictyospore whose pattern of septa is reminiscent of a brick wall
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(microbiology) A spore produced through multiple fission of a dinomastigote
adj
(biology) Relating to diplospory
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(biology) gametophytic apomixis in which the megagametophyte arises from a cell of the archesporium
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(biology) A small, temporary body between the conidia of some fungi.
adj
(biology) Having two spores.
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A thin septum of an ascospore that lacks a septal plate and is penetrated by cytoplasmic junctions
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The central pore in the septum of a basidiomycete mycelium
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(botany) A long, slender cell produced among spores and having hygroscopic secondary cell wall thickenings.
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The megagametophyte in a flowering plant.
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Within or as an extension of the basidium.
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The inner layer of a spore.
adj
(botany) Having the spores contained in a case; applied to fungi.
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(biology, intransitive) (of a bacterium) To produce endospores.
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(biology) The process of a bacterium becoming an endospore.
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(biology) An organism that produces endospores
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(botany) The production of gametophytes within a spore.
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(mycology) long and usually tapered outgrowths at the top of a basidium, bearing basidiospores
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The pattern of cell wall thickening which forms the ornamentation on spores of certain types of mushroom (especially of family Entolomataceae).
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(botany) The thickish outer coat of certain spores.
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(lichenology & mycology) An external layer over the fertile surface of some fungi, formed from extensions of the paraphyses.
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(mycology) Hymenium in which the basidia are among the first elements formed.
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(botany) That has sporangia that were each formed from several epidermal cells; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of eusporangiate ferns.
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(botany) Having the sporangium destitute of a ring; said of certain genera of ferns.
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(lichenology & mycology) The outer part of an apothecium of those ascomycete fungi which have that sort of fructification. Most lichens come into that category.
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Separated from the basidium by a wall.
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The outer layer of a spore, especially in some algae and fungi.
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(botany) The outer layer of a pollen grain or spore; the exine.
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(biology) The process of a bacterium becoming an exospore.
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(botany) The production of spores that germinate to form free-living gametophytes
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(biology) The structure, in bacteria, in which an endospore develops
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The spores of cryptogams and their accessory organs.
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(mycology) The structure on a fungus which houses the spore-producing organs.
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A collection of preserved specimens of fungus.
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(botany) An extended thallus, in liverworts, that bears the gametes
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(botany, mycology) A gamete-producing organ or cell found in many multicellular protists, algae and fungi, and in the gametophytes of plants.
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(biology) A structure, in certain protozoans, in which gametocytes or gametes are formed
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(botany) in ferns, the bearer of sex organs
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(botany) A plant (or the haploid phase in its life cycle) which produces gametes by mitosis in order to produce a zygote.
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(archaic) Synonym of gemma (“an asexual reproductive structure, as found in animals such as hydra (genus Hydra) and plants such as liverworts (division Marchantiophyta), consisting of a cluster of cells from which a new individual can develop”)
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(mycology) A small pore in the outer wall of a fungal spore.
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A hypha produced by some fungi during germination
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(biology) A cluster of germinant receptors on the inner membrane of a spore
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the organism produced by germination of an algal or fungal spore, but especially an immature gametophyte produced by the germination of a tetraspore.
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A sporangium that contains germspores
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(mycology) The fleshy, spore-bearing inner mass of certain fungi.
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(mycology) A cystidium which easily stains with a chemical reagent or has visible or granular contents.
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(lichenology) One of the bluish-green granules that replace the more usual gonidia in certain lichens.
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(biology) A sporogenous filament (or bundle of such filaments) in the fertilized carpogonium of red algae.
adj
(lichenology) Pertaining to, or containing, gonidia or gonimia, as that part of a lichen which contains the green or chlorophyll-bearing cells.
adj
(fungi) Having the hymenium exposed while the spores are forming.
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(biology) The archegonium of a gymnosperm
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A type of spore that does not have a protective envelope, especially one not produced in a sporangium
adj
(botany, of a spore) Having a transparent outer layer
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(mycology) A hypha developing between asci of the hymenium.
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Any fungal spore that has the form of a cylindrical coil (helix)
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Either distinct half of a spermatophore
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(botany) The production of spores of two different sizes and sexes by the sporophytes of land plants.
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(mycology) The part of a spore which attaches to the sterigmata at the end of a basidium.
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(mycology) The part of a spore which attaches to the sterigmata at the end of a basidium.
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(mycology) A nonseptate unicellular basidium
adj
(botany, of an alga) in which the entire thallus develops into a sporangium
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(botany) any plant producing spores of the same size and type.
adj
(botany) producing spores of the same size and type.
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(biology) A small, motile filament, formed by some cyanobacteria, that detaches and grows by cell division into a new filament
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One of a group of fungi that have basidiocarps producing spores on tooth- or spine-like projections.
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A plant whose spores, seeds, or fruits are dispersed by water.
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(mycology) A cystidium which is found on the spore bearing surface of a fungus.
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(mycology) A surface layer of lengthened cells arranged side by side on the spore-bearing surface of a fungus.
adj
(mycology) Like the spore bearing surface of a fungus in form.
n
(mycology) The sporebearing surface of a fungus.
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(mycology) Any fungus with a fruiting body whose hymenophore develops either unenclosed or enclosed only with a velum.
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(mycology) The inside flesh of the hymenophore.
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(mycology) The part of a fungus fruiting body which produces spore-bearing cells.
adj
More than usually conidiate
adj
That develops in the decaying fruiting bodies of other fungi
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(mycology) A sterile hyphal structure in the fertile layer of a fungus.
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(mycology) Any of a group of fungi imperfecti that lack fruiting bodies.
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(biology) A hypha, in some ectoparasitic fungi, having a haustorium
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(mycology) the cell at the base of a basidium
adj
Less than normally flagellated
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The layer of hyphal tissue directly beneath the thecium
adj
(mycology) Of or relating to the arrangement of the hymenium of some mushroom species in the genera Coprinus, Coprinopsis, Coprinellus, Panaeolus, Psilocybe and Lacrymaria. The intermittent maturation and shedding of spores in radial bands beginning from the periphery of each gill, deliquescing from the bottom and advancing upwards.
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(botany) A protecting membrane, especially that covering the developing spores of a fern.
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A hermaphroditic group of cells within a rhombogen
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(biology) One of the spores produced by an isosporous organism.
adj
(botany) Producing only one kind of spore.
adj
(biology) Producing only one kind of spore.
n
The quality of being isosporous.
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(mycology) The area of divergent hyphae which is on either side of the central zone (mediostratum).
adj
(botany) Having sporangia that were each formed from a single epidermal cell; of, pertaining to, or characteristic of ferns of this kind.
n
(botany) A sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell.
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The generation and development of macroconidia
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The formation of macroconidia
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A relatively large conidiophore
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(mycology) A relatively large conidium, but especially the larger of a pair of conidia in the same organism
adj
Having larger than normal conidiogenous cells
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Synonym of megasporangium
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(botany) A megasporangium; sporangium or conceptacle containing only large spores; opposed to microsporangium.
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One of the specially large spores of certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella, etc.
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A cell that produces macrospores during meiosis
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The generation and development of macrospores
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a leaflike organ that bears one or more macrosporangia
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A large motile spore having four vibratile cilia; found in certain green algae.
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(biology) The spore of a malacosporean
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A powdery spore mass released by some fungi on the surface of the apothecium.
n
(mycology) The central strand of a divergent gill trama.
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(biology) A female gametophyte.
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A megalohead spermatogonium
adj
(botany) Having megasporangia
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(biology) A sporangium which produces only megaspores
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(botany) The larger spore of a heterosporous plant, typically producing a female gametophyte
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A cell that forms four megaspores by meiosis; a megasporocyte.
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(biology) A large sporocarp containing a megasporangium
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The formation of megaspores in angiosperms
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A sporophyll that bears megasporangia.
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A sporophyte that produces megaspores
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(biology) A sporangium that contains megazoospores
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(biology) A relatively large algal zoospore
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(biology) A kind of cell that differentiates into a gamete through the process of meiosis.
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Any sporangium that is subject to meiosis
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An alga of any kind that produces blackish spores, or seed dust.
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A secondary spore resulting from division of another spore.
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(mycology) A cylindrical sporangiolum found in zygomycetes.
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(biology) A protozoan cell, produced by a sporozoan by merogony, that may become either a meront or a gamont
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A medium-sized spore such as the single-celled teleutospore
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(mycology) a basidium after meiosis
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(biology) The outermost branch of a conidiophore from which flask-shaped phialides radiate
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The generation and development of microconidia
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The generation and development of microconidia
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(mycology) A relatively small conidium, but especially the smaller of a pair of conidia in the same organism
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a gametocyte that produces microgametes
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(biology) A male gametophyte
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A very small gonidium (lichen part).
adj
Having smaller than normal conidiogenous cells
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(botany) A case, capsule or container that holds microspores.
n
(zoology) One of the numerous tiny spore-like elements produced through the encystment and subdivision of many monads
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Any of many parasites, of the class Microsporidia, considered to be fungi or close relatives of fungi.
n
(biology) A very small sporocarp, containing microsporangia
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(biology) A cell that produces (typically four) microspores during meiosis.
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(botany) The formation of four haploid microspores by meiosis.
adj
Involved in microsporogenesis.
n
a leaflike organ that bears one or more microsporangia (contrast megasporophyll or macrosporophyll)
n
(botany) A small motile spore furnished with two vibratile cilia, found in certain green algae.
n
(biology) A germ in that stage of development in which its form is simply a non-nucleated mass of protoplasm.
adj
Containing conidia from a single conidiophore
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A fungal mycelium or hypha in which each cell contains a single nucleus
n
A sporangium that has monospores
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(biology) A simple nonmotile asexual spore
n
The production of single spores
adj
Involving multiple spores
n
Any of several diverse structures on the body of an animal that are adapted for the transport of symbiotic fungi (usually as spores)
n
(biology) A propagule in fungal plastids
n
(biology) The condition of having mucilaginous diaspores.
n
Something (generally an organism) which is not a spore.
n
(biology) A carpospore (one of eight) produced by red algae of the family Bangiaceae
n
A fragile spore produced by some fungi.
adj
That produces several spores
n
(mycology, archaic) A reproductive cell in certain fungi.
n
(botany, mycology) A sac (the female gametangium) containing oospheres in algae or fungi.
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(biology) A form of some ferns and mosses that bear sexual fruit
n
(botany) The macrosporangium or case for the larger kind of spore in heterosporous flowerless plants.
n
(botany) A case containing oval or rounded spores of some other kind than oospores.
n
(biology) A fertilized female zygote, having thick chitinous walls, that develops from a fertilized oosphere in some algae and fungi
n
The sporogenesis of oospores
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(botany) The lidlike portion of a moss sporangium or of a fruit that detaches to allow the dispersal of spores or seeds.
n
(mycology) A small hole or opening through which certain fungi release their mature spores.
n
Alternative form of oospore [(biology) A fertilized female zygote, having thick chitinous walls, that develops from a fertilized oosphere in some algae and fungi]
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(botany) Any spore (derived from fungi, algae or spore-bearing embryophytes) or pollen grain (derived from seed-bearing embryophytes).
n
Any taxon identified by means of spores, pollen etc.
n
An assemblage of several sporocysts
n
(dated, botany) The antheridium of an ascomycete
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(biology) paraphysis of an alga
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(mycology) A type of sterile cell amongst the spore-bearing asci.
n
A hyphal thread between the asci of a fungus
adj
(biochemistry) Describing a crystalline protein that forms around a spore in some bacteria that acts as a toxin precursor when digested
n
(biology) The hyphal layer of the apothecium of a lichen
n
(biology) A septal pore cap, a microscopic structure of unknown function found in the cells of basidiomycete fungi.
n
(mycology) A lens shaped capsule of spores that grows in cups of some kinds of fungi.
n
(mycology) The outer layer that covers the spore-bearing organ in many fungi.
n
(dated, zoology) The wall of the sporosac in a hydroid.
n
A sporoderm layer surrounding the exine of many spores
n
(botany) The outer covering of a spore.
n
(mycology) the outer part of a spore wall which often disappears in older spores.
n
(botany) The layer of cells surrounding a thallus
n
(mycology) An ascocarp shaped like a skittle or ball, distinguished by a small pore, the ostiole, through which the spores are released one by one when ripe.
n
A brownish zoospore, characteristic of an order (Phaeosporeae) of dark green or olive-colored algae.
n
(botany, now rare) Phanerogam; spermatophyte.
n
Any of series of spores that form on the tip of the phialide of a fungus
n
(mycology) A septate unicellular basidium.
n
(botany) A plant spore that has multiple transverse septa
n
(obsolete) A gelatin in which the algae spores have been supposed to vegetate.
n
A form of microsome present in the cytoplasm of some algae
n
One of the motile ciliated gametes, or zoogametes, found in isogamous plants and green algae.
n
(mycology) A fruiting body of certain myxomycetes
adj
(biology, of an oospore) that occupies the entire oogonium
n
(mycology) A relatively large cell found on the gill face of a basidiomycete
n
(botany) An algal spore that develops within a plurilocular sporangium.
n
Any plant in which the sporophyte has a structure of branching stems (axes) terminating in sporangia.
n
(botany) A sporangium that contains many spores
n
Any of a group of twelve to sixteen spores present in some red algae
n
(zoology) A spore that produces many sporozoites.
adj
(biology, of a cell) Destined to become part of the spore of a fruiting body.
n
(mycology) a basidium prior to meiosis
n
(mycology) The structure that develops into a conidium
n
(botany) The protonema of mosses
n
(mycology) The structure, in some fungi, that develops into the gametangium.
n
(biology) A very early form of plant that produced both wood (like trees) but also spores (like ferns)
n
The basidium of a rust fungus, a club-shaped structure bearing sporidia
n
A gemma or bud affecting asexual propagation in many algae.
adj
That develops into a spore
n
The young gametophyte of a liverwort or peat moss.
n
(botany) A tuberous mass of cells that is the embryonic form of orchids and club mosses
n
(botany) A filament of cells that forms following the germination of the spores of mosses and liverworts
n
(biology) A uninucleate body from which a spore develops
n
An inflorescence produced on a fungus by a pathogen in order to facilitate transmission of spores by insects
n
(mycology) A chain of blastoconidia
n
A structure in many monogeneans similar to a spermatophore that is used to prevent escape of sperm from the vagina
n
(botany) A reproductive cell found in some fungi.
n
A body in some lichens that resembles a stroma
n
An ascocarp resembling a perithecium but whose asci are not regularly organised into a hymenium and are bitunicate, having a double wall which expands when it takes up water and shoots the enclosed spores out suddenly to disperse them.
n
Any plant of the division Pteridophyta, of simple vascular plants that reproduce via spores rather than seeds and that alternate generations of diploid (sporophyte) and haploid (gametophyte or prothallus) forms, the diploid generally being larger and more conspicuous.
n
(biology) Formation of the pycnidium
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A spore from a pycnidium.
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In certain fungi, a flask-shaped cavity from the surface of the inner walls of which spores are produced.
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A spore produced by a pycnium
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The body of a fungus that produces pycniospores
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(botany) Synonym of stylospore, Synonym of pycniospore
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(mycology) The wall of the perithecium.
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(obsolete) A crescent-shaped spore associated with sarcosporidiosis in pigs.
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An intercalary or apical branch of a conidiophore that detaches and functions as a conidium
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(phycology) A structure at the end of a branch of an alga containing conceptacles (reproductive organs).
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(pathology) Being straight spore chains consisting of rod-shaped spores.
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A spore, in certain orders of algae, which remains quiescent, retaining its vitality, for long periods of time.
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(pathology) Class of spore chains that are open and spiral-shaped.
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(biology) Describing the dehiscence of a cell by the breakdown of the outer wall, between conidia
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Any fungus of the phylum Ascomycota, having non-motile spores in a sac
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The cup of a thread cell.
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A slender, threadlike fungal spore
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One of several spores arranged in a chain, as in certain algae.
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A mass of hyphae constituting the mycelium of certain fungi.
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A fruiting body, characteristic of certain cellular slime molds, consisting of both a sorophore and a sorus
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A sorus-bearing structure in certain ferns.
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(mycology, lichenology) Any reproductive structure, in some lichens and fungi, that produces spores.
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(biology) A spermospore.
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(botany) Any plant that bears seeds rather than spores
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Alternative form of spermospore [(physiology) The male germinal or seminal cell, from the breaking up of which the spermoblasts are formed and ultimately the spermatozoids.]
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(biology) A motile, ciliated male gamete produced in the antheridium of an alga, fern or gymnosperm.
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Alternative form of spermatozoid [(biology) A motile, ciliated male gamete produced in the antheridium of an alga, fern or gymnosperm.]
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(lichenology) A conceptacle of certain lichens, containing spermatia.
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(zoology) Alternative form of spermatophore [(biology) A spermospore.]
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(botany) Alternative form of spermatophyte [(botany) Any plant that bears seeds rather than spores]
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(physiology) A mass or ball of cells formed by the repeated division of a spermospore, each spermoblast of which is converted into a spermatozoid.
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(physiology) The male germinal or seminal cell, from the breaking up of which the spermoblasts are formed and ultimately the spermatozoids.
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(mycology) A rounded cell, found in clusters within the trama of some mushrooms.
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(botany) One of the non-sexual spores found in red algae; a tetraspore.
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Alternative form of sphaerocyst [(mycology) A rounded cell, found in clusters within the trama of some mushrooms.]
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The formation and development of spicules
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(mycology) An amoeboid cell in a slime net.
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(mycology) A region at the apex of the hyphae in certain fungi, which is refractive.
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A layer of net-like anastomosing hyphae on lower surface of some ascomycetes
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(mycology) The trajectory of a basidiospore after it is discharged from a sterigma.
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Resembling a sporangium.
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(biochemistry) An enzyme associated with the development and release of sporangia
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The creation and development of the sporangium
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Resembling a sporangium.
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A fungal spore that is not enclosed by a sporangium
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(mycology) a small sporangium
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(mycology) A special type of hypha that bears sporangia on the tip.
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A spore produced by a sporangium (in many fungi, such as zygomycetes).
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(botany, mycology) A case, capsule, or container in which spores are produced by an organism.
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A reproductive particle, usually a single cell, released by a fungus, alga, or plant that may germinate into another.
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(botany) A structure containing spores; a sporangium.
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(mycology) Synonym of ascocarp
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(mycology) The distinctive and identifying pattern and color produced after the cap of a mushroom is pressed against a white page.
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(biology) A group of protein layers beneath the perispore of some spores
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A young plant or fungus produced by a germinated spore
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(chiefly botany) A sporidium.
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(botany, rare) A pluricellular body which becomes free like a simple spore, and in which every cell is capable of germination.
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(botany) Bearing sporidia.
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(biology) Bearing or producing spores.
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(biology) The formation of spores.
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An exinite maceral found in coal formed from spores and pollen.
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(rare) reproduction by means of spores
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A sporozoan cell, found in the oocyst of the malarial parasite in the mosquito, that produces spores and sporozoites
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(mycology) The structure on a fungus and some algae which houses the spore-producing organs.
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A structure in Ascosphaera fungi within which the asci form.
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A cell that produces haploid spores during meiosis
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The wall or covering of a spore.
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A small, compact stroma (mass of hyphae) usually formed on host plants parasitized by mitosporic fungi of the form order Tuberculariales (Deuteromycota, Hyphomycetes). It bears the conidiophores on which the asexual spores or conidia are formed
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The sporophyte of a bryophyte (moss, liverwort or hornwort), generally consisting of a foot, seta and capsule.
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The formation of sporozoites from spores or zygotes.
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A fossil pollen grain or spore
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(biology) In the sexual reproduction of certain sporozoans: an encysted spore, developed from a zygote, which undergoes sporogony to form sporozoites.
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A sporophyte, or spore-producing plant.
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(botany) Having the nature of a sporophore.
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A vesicle, in microsporidians, that contain sporoblasts and spores.
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Alternative form of sporophyll [(botany) The equivalent to a leaf, in ferns and mosses, that bears the sporangia.]
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(botany) The equivalent to a leaf, in ferns and mosses, that bears the sporangia.
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(botany) A plant (or the diploid phase in its life cycle) which produces spores by meiosis in order to produce gametophytes.
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That produces sporoplasm
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(botany) pollen composed of spores
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(botany) A combination of biopolymers, observed in the exine layer of the spore and pollen wall.
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(botany) A hydrozoan reproductive zooid or simple form of gonophore which does not become medusoid in form or structure
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(botany) The compartment of a plant containing spores
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(botany) The so-called fruit of plants in the family Characeae of green algae, consisting of the hard brownish spirally-twisted shell or covering of the spore.
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(zoology) A mycangium in certain mites.
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(cytology) Any of the minute active bodies into which a sporozoan divides just before it infects a new host cell.
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(botany) That produces spores
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The process of a bacterium becoming a spore.
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(biology) An organism that produces spores
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(biology) Producing sporules.
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A spore, such as a puffball, that is not actively discharged from the fungal fruiting body.
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(mycology, of spores) That are not forcibly discharged
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A resting spore formed in the frustules of various marine diatoms
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A septate fungal spore in the form of a pinwheel.
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(mycology) A slim projecting part of the basidium of some species of fungi that carries the basidiospore.
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(mycology) Alternative form of sterigma. [(mycology) A slim projecting part of the basidium of some species of fungi that carries the basidiospore.]
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(mycology) A hypha that acts as a runner, connecting sporangiophores.
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(botany) The region of a sporangium where dehiscence takes place
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(biology) An individual asexually producing sexual individuals differing from itself also in other respects, such as the tapeworm; one of the forms that occur in metagenesis.
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(botany) A spore that has a thin stalk.
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The supportive hyphae from which the cells of the hymenium grow.
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One of the minute motile reproductive bodies produced asexually by certain algae and fungi.
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(biology) The asexual stage of rapid growth in a number of microorganisms
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(botany) The cells on the outside of an archesporium.
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(botany) The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer.
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(biology) A group of four haploid and immature pollen grains in tetrahedral fashion produced by meiotic microsporogenesis.
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(botany) A sporangium that produces tetraspores
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(biology) Any of the four asexual spores produced by a sporangium.
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A sporophyte, in red algae, that produce tetraspores (actually meiospores)
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A spore produced in a theca.
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(botany) Having the spores in thecae, or cases.
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(mycology, dated) The hymenium
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(microbiology) A mature form of a trophont.
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(mycology) The inner, fleshy portion of a mushroom's basidiocarp, distinct from the outer pileipellis or cuticle and from the spore-bearing hymenium.
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(botany) An algal spore that develops within a unilocular sporangium.
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(botany) A spore produced by a uredinium
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Alternative form of urediniospore [(botany) A spore produced by a uredinium]
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(botany) The thin-walled summer spore produced during the uredo stage of certain rusts.
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Relating to uredospores.
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A nonreproductive cell; any cell that is not involved in the production of gametes.
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A gonidium that contains spores
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A haploid zoospore produced by meiosis
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(obsolete) zoosporangium
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A sporangiophore that has zoosporangia
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(botany) A sporangium, or conceptacle containing or producing zoospores.
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A motile asexual spore of some algae and fungi
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(zoology) Bearing zoospores.
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The production of zoospores
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Relating to zoospores.
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The production of zoospores
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Alternative spelling of zoosporangium [(botany) A sporangium, or conceptacle containing or producing zoospores.]
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Alternative spelling of zoospore [A motile asexual spore of some algae and fungi]
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(biology) An organism of the phylum Zygomycota.
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(mycology) A specialized hyphal branch giving rise to isogametes that unite to produce a zygospore
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(botany, obsolete) Any plant of a formerly proposed class or grand division (Zygophytes, Zygophyta, or Zygosporeae), in which reproduction consists in the union of two similar cells.
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(botany) A spore formed by the union of the contents of two similar cells, either of the same or of distinct individual plants. They are found in certain orders of algae and fungi.
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(botany) A plant's gamete which can form a zygospore by uniting with a similar one.
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(mycology) A sporangium which produces a single zygospore.
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(biology) A zygotic spore of some red algae
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(botany) A spore formed by the union of several zoospores.
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Obsolete spelling of aeciospore [(botany) A binucleate spore of a rust fungus, formed in a chainlike series in an aecium.]
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Obsolete spelling of aecium [(mycology) A cuplike fruiting structure of some parasitic rust fungi that contains chains of aeciospores.]
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