spore

Definitions


[spɔː], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a minute, typically one-celled, reproductive unit capable of giving rise to a new individual without sexual fusion, characteristic of lower plants, fungi, and protozoans


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Origin:
mid 19th century: from modern Latin spora, from Greek spora ‘sowing, seed’, from speirein ‘to sow’




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