Word Meanings - ACROSPORE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.

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• BORNE
  Carried; conveyed; supported; defrayed. See Bear, v. t.
• FUNGIVOROUS
  Eating fungi; -- said of certain insects and snails.
• FUNGIN
  A name formerly given to cellulose found in certain fungi and mushrooms.
• FUNGIBLES
  Things which may be furnished or restored in kind, as distinguished from specific things; -- called also fungible things. Burrill. (more info) fungi to discharge. "A barbarous term, supposed to have originated in the use of the words functionem
• FUNGITE
  A fossil coral resembling Fungia.
• FUNGIFORM
  Shaped like a fungus or mushroom. Fungiform papillæ , numerous small, rounded eminences on the upper surface of the tongue.
• FUNGIAN
  Of or pertaining to the Fungidæ, a family of stony corals. -- n.
• FUNGILLIFORM
  Shaped like a small fungus.
• FUNGIA
  A genus of simple, stony corals; -- so called because they are usually flat and circular, with radiating plates, like the gills of a mushroom. Some of them are eighteen inches in diameter.
• EXTREMITY
  One of locomotive appendages of an animal; a limb; a leg or an arm of man. 3. The utmost point; highest degree; most aggravated or intense form. "The extremity of bodily pain." Ray. 4. The highest degree of inconvenience, pain, or suffering;
• FUNGI IMPERFECTI
  A heterogenous group of fungi of which the complete life history is not known. Some undoubtedly represent the conidium stages of various Ascomycetes. The group is divided into the orders Sphæropsidales, Melanconiales, and Moniliales.
• FUNGIC
  Pertaining to, or obtained from, mushrooms; as, fungic acid.
• BORNEOL
  A rare variety of camphor, C10H17.OH, resembling ordinary camphor, from which it can be produced by reduction. It is said to occur in the camphor tree of Borneo and Sumatra (Dryobalanops camphora), but the natural borneol is rarely found in European
• SPORE
  One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species. Note: Spores are produced differently in the different classes of cryptogamous plants, and as regards their nature are often so unlike
• FRUCTIFICATION
  1. The act of forming or producing fruit; the act of fructifying, or rendering productive of fruit; fecundation. The prevalent fructification of plants. Sir T. Brown. The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds,
• FUNGICIDE
  Anything that kills fungi. -- Fun`gi*ci"dal, n.
• FUNGI
  See FUNGUS
• PHAEOSPORE
  A brownish zoöspore, characteristic of an order of dark green or olive-colored algæ. -- Phæ`o*spor"ic, a.
• EPISPORE
  The thickish outer coat of certain spores.
• DIASPORE
  A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe.
• EXOSPORE
  The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore.
• ACROSPORE
  A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi.
• FORBORNE
  p. p. of Forbear.
• TELEUTOSPORE
  The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer. See Illust. of Uredospore.
• PURKINJE'S CELLS
  Large ganglion cells forming a layer near the surface of the cerebellum.
• SPHAEROSPORE
  One of the nonsexual spores found in red algæ; a tetraspore.
• ARTHROSPORE
  A bacterial resting cell, -- formerly considered a spore, but now known to occur even in endosporous bacteria. -- Ar`thro*spor"ic , Ar*thros"po*rous , a.
• SUBORNER
  One who suborns or procures another to take, a false oath; one who procures another to do a bad action.
• ISOSPORE
  One of the spores produced by an isosporous organism. A zygospore.
• MACROSPORE
  One of the specially large spores of certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella, etc.
• TETRASPORE
  A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds. -- Tet`ra*spor"ic, a.