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SPORULATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores
Synonyms:
monogenesis; sporulation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("sporulation" is a kind of...):
agamogenesis; asexual reproduction (reproduction without the fusion of gametes)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sporulation"):
heterospory (the development of both microspores and megaspores)
homospory (the development of a single kind of asexual spores)
Derivation:
sporulate (produce spores)
