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Spore   /spɔr/   Listen
Spore

noun
1.
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.



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"Spore" Quotes from Famous Books



... number of small spores. In these processes it often happens that the whole body of the mother, the entire cell, may resolve itself into two or more children; at times, however, a small portion of the mother cell remains unused. This remnant, in the spore-forming unicellular plants represented by the cell wall, is ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 • Various


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