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That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore.

A vertical branch which gives rise to spores by abstriction or otherwise, in Fungi.

Part of an organism bearing the spores.

That part of an organism supporting a spore. [Gr.]