ASCOSPORE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Sexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("ascospore" is a kind of...):

spore (a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion)

Derivation:

ascosporic; ascosporous (of or relating to ascospores)

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