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Meaning of 'spore'
Meaning of 'spore' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Spore 
[ n.]
- One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are
analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species. [ n.]- An embryo sac or embryonal vesicle in the ovules of flowering plants.
- A minute grain or germ; a small, round or ovoid body, formed in certain organisms, and by germination giving rise to a new organism; as, the reproductive spores of bacteria, etc.
- One of the parts formed by fission in certain Protozoa. See Spore formation, belw.
Meaning of 'spore' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. spore [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion
- a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion
Example in sentence:
- a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes
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