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ASCOSPORE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does ascospore mean?
• ASCOSPORE (noun)
The noun ASCOSPORE has 1 sense:
1. sexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus
Familiarity information: ASCOSPORE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("ascospore" is a kind of...):
spore (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)
Derivation:
ascosporic; ascosporous (of or relating to ascospores)
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