| AECIOSPORES | • aeciospores n. Plural of aeciospore. • æciospores n. Plural of æciospore. • AECIOSPORE n. a spore produced in an aecidium, also AECIDOSPORE. |
| ARCHESPORES | • archespores n. Plural of archespore. • ARCHESPORE n. the cell or group of cells in a sporangium that gives rise to spores. |
| AZYGOSPORES | • azygospores n. Plural of azygospore. • AZYGOSPORE n. a thick-walled spore produced by parthenogenesis in certain algae and fungi. |
| BLASTOPORES | • blastopores n. Plural of blastopore. • BLASTOPORE n. the opening of the archenteron in the gastrula that develops into the anus of some animals, also BLASTOPOR. |
| CARPOSPORES | • carpospores n. Plural of carpospore. • CARPOSPORE n. a kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algae. |
| MACROSPORES | • macrospores n. Plural of macrospore. • MACROSPORE n. a spore giving rise to a female gametophyte. |
| MICROSPORES | • microspores n. Plural of microspore. • MICROSPORE n. a spore giving rise to a male gametophyte. |
| PYCNOSPORES | • pycnospores n. Plural of pycnospore. • PYCNOSPORE n. a conidium produced in a pycnidium, also PYCNIDIOSPORE. |
| TELIOSPORES | • teliospores n. Plural of teliospore. • TELIOSPORE n. the thick-walled resting spore of rusts and smuts from which the basidium arises. |
| TETRASPORES | • tetraspores n. Plural of tetraspore. • TETRASPORE n. a nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds. |
| UREDOSPORES | • uredospores n. Plural of uredospore. • UREDOSPORE n. the thin-walled summer spore which is produced during the so-called Uredo stage of certain rusts, also UREDINIOSPORE, UREDIOSPORE. |
| VAPORESCENT | • vaporescent adj. (Rare) Becoming vaporous; producing or emitting vapor. • VAPORESCENT adj. forming vapor. |