| APOSPOROUS | • aposporous adj. (Botany) relating to apospory. • APOSPOROUS adj. showing apospory, the development of prothalli from direct outgrowths from the fern frond. |
| EXOSPOROUS | • exosporous adj. Relating to an exospore. • EXOSPOROUS adj. of or like an exospore, the extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore. |
| ISOSPOROUS | • isosporous adj. (Biology) Producing only one kind of spore. • ISOSPOROUS adj. having spores of one kind only, as opposed to heterosporous. |
| SPOROCARPS | • sporocarps n. Plural of sporocarp. • SPOROCARP n. a closed body or conceptacle containing one or more masses of spores or sporangia. |
| SPOROCYSTS | • sporocysts n. Plural of sporocyst. • SPOROCYST n. a rounded, thick-walled structure produced, as by protozoans, in the process of sporulation. |
| SPOROCYTES | • sporocytes n. Plural of sporocyte. • SPOROCYTE n. a diploid cell that divides by meiosis to produce four haploid spores. |
| SPOROGENIC | • sporogenic adj. Producing spores. • sporogenic adj. Reproducing via spores. • SPOROGENIC adj. producing spores. |
| SPOROGONIA | • sporogonia n. Plural of sporogonium. • SPOROGONIUM n. an organ that produces asexual spores in mosses. |
| SPOROGONIC | • sporogonic adj. Relating to, or possessing sporogonia. • SPOROGONIC adj. relating to a sporogonium, an organ that produces asexual spores in mosses. |
| SPOROPHORE | • sporophore n. A spore-producing organ, especially a fungus hypha specialized to carry spores. • sporophore n. A sporophyte, or spore-producing plant. • SPOROPHORE n. a spore-bearing stalk or structure, as in fungi. |
| SPOROPHYLL | • sporophyll n. (Botany) The equivalent to a leaf, in ferns and mosses, that bears the sporangia. • SPOROPHYLL n. a leaf that bears sporangia, also SPOROPHYL. |
| SPOROPHYLS | • sporophyls n. Plural of sporophyl. • SPOROPHYL n. a leaf that bears sporangia, also SPOROPHYLL. |
| SPOROPHYTE | • sporophyte n. (Botany) A plant (or the diploid phase in its life cycle) which produces spores by meiosis in order… • SPOROPHYTE n. a spore-producing phase in plants that reproduce by metagenesis (alternating asexual and sexual reproduction). |
| SPOROZOANS | • sporozoans n. Plural of sporozoan. • SPOROZOAN n. any parasitic protozoan of the class Sporozoa, including the causal organisms of malaria and pebrine, also SPOROZOON. |
| SPOROZOITE | • sporozoite n. (Cytology) Any of the minute active bodies into which a sporozoan divides just before it infects a new host cell. • SPOROZOITE n. a minute, mobile, preadult spore developed by sporozoans. |
| ZOOSPOROUS | • zoosporous adj. Relating to zoospores. • ZOOSPOROUS adj. of or like a zoospore, a swarm-spore. |