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Noun: spore  spor
  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
    "a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes"

Sounds like: spoor

Derived forms: spores

See also: sporogenous

Type of: agamete

Encyclopedia: Spore

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