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SPORE

\spˈɔː], \spˈɔː], \s_p_ˈɔː]\

Definitions of SPORE

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary

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One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species.
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.

2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
By Oddity Software

A very small grain in flowerless plants which performs the part of a seed.

1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer

The reproductive cell of a sporozoan or of a cryptogamous plant; a cell of an inferior order to an ovum orseed.

1920 - A practical medical dictionary.
By Stedman, Thomas Lathrop

The reproductive substance of plants which do not flower.

1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
By William R. Warner

A minute grain which serves as a seed in flowerless plants like the fern.

1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
By Daniel Lyons

Minute grain serving as a seed to flowerless plants.

1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman

A minute grain serving as a seed of a flowerless plant; a germ.

1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
By James Champlin Fernald

That part of a flowerless plant which performs the function of the seed.

1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
By Nuttall, P.Austin.

One of the minute grains in flowerless plants which perform the functions of seeds, as in the ferns and club-mosses.

1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.

A highly specialized reproductive cell of plants; a falciform cell of Sporozoa which bores into a mother sperm cell and emerges as an adult.

1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.

The reproductive body in cryptogamous plants, which is analogous to the seed of phanerogamous plants.

1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
By Robley Dunglison

A reproductive cell of a protozoon or cryptogamic plant.

1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland

A reproductive motile body found in many of the lower vegetable cells, but not produced by the sexual elements.
An ovoid, non-staining, highly refractive, non-sexual body present in many bacteria.

1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
By Smith Ely Jelliffe

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