CARPOSPORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does carpospore mean? 

• CARPOSPORE (noun)
  The noun CARPOSPORE has 1 sense:

1. a nonmotile spore of red algae

  Familiarity information: CARPOSPORE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARPOSPORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A nonmotile spore of red algae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("carpospore" 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)

Holonyms ("carpospore" is a part of...):

red algae (marine algae in which the chlorophyll is masked by a red or purplish pigment; source of agar and carrageenan)

Derivation:

carposporic (relating to or resembling a carpospore)

carposporous (having carpospores)