spore
IPA: spˈɔr
noun
- A reproductive particle, usually a single cell, released by a fungus, alga, or plant that may germinate into another.
- A thick resistant particle produced by a bacterium or protist to survive in harsh or unfavorable conditions.
verb
- To produce spores.
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Examples of "spore" in Sentences
- The spores mature in the summer.
- Spores are colorless and unicellular.
- Their flagellate spores are preserved.
- The color of the spore print is unknown.
- The spores land on the soil and germinate.
- In the gut of the host, the spore germinates.
- The mature spores are disseminated by the wind.
- Conspicuously wider above the center of the spore.
- The fungus before the spore is the inevitable induction.
- Most fall allergies can be traced to ragweed pollen and mold spores.
- Fern spores are formed in little sacs known as spore-cases or sporángia
- Tiny molecular compound copies of me spray out in spore clouds to infect and replicate other flesh.
- Here are Shiitakes growing in spore-enriched soil bricks, one of the common ways they are cultivated.
- The allergy report shows high levels of ragweed while grass pollen and mold spores are at medium levels.
- i live in spore and also do like the mrt system. its rather convenient. and im looking fwd to its new lines
- That would be the end of it, except that the spore was a species of yeast that happened to like cold weather.
- You have to grow it in such a way that it would be -- the bacillus germinates into a spore, which is it's dormant form.
- They are formed by the ends of the filaments swelling up and becoming constricted, so as to form an oval spore, which is then cut off by a wall.
- The bacteria and the spore are the same; it's whether you inhale it; whether you get it on your skin, a little spore on your skin, and it goes through a cut on your skin; or you eat it in some food.
- All of the common _Ascomycetes_ belong to the second division, and have the spore sacs contained in special structures called spore fruits, that may reach a diameter of several centimetres in a few cases, though ordinarily much smaller.