English noun: spore |
1. | spore (plant) 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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| Samples | A sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes.
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| Broader (hypernym) | agamete |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | aeciospore, ascospore, basidiospore, carpospore, chlamydospore, conidiospore, conidium, endospore, fern seed, macrospore, megaspore, microspore, oospore, pollen, resting spore, tetraspore, zoospore, zygospore |
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