Word Meanings - SPORANGIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.

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• 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
• 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.
• TELEUTOSPORE
  The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer. See Illust. of Uredospore.
• 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.
• 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.
• SWARMSPORE
  One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algæ and fungi; a zoöspore.
• MICROZOOSPORE; MICROZOOESPORE
  A small motile spore furnished with two vibratile cilia, found in certain green algæ.
• CRYPTOGAMIAN; CRYPTOGAMIC; CRYPTOGAMOUS
  Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series. (more info) Cryp*to"gam*ous a.
• PSEUDOSPORE
  A peculiar reproductive cell found in some fungi.
• PERISPORE
  The outer covering of a spore.
• ASCOSPORE
  One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi.
• ENDOSPORE
  The thin inner coat of certain spores.
• SPERMATOSPORE
  See SPERMOSPORE
• UNDERSPORE
  To raise with a spar, or piece of wood, used as a lever. Give me a staff that I may underspore. Chaucer.