SPORULATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sporulate mean? 

• SPORULATE (verb)
  The verb SPORULATE has 2 senses:

1. produce spores

2. convert into spores

  Familiarity information: SPORULATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPORULATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they sporulate    ... he / she / it sporulates   
Past simple: sporulated   
Past participle: sporulated   
-ing form: sporulating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Produce spores

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Context example:

plants sporulate

Hypernyms (to "sporulate" is one way to...):

bring forth; produce (bring forth or yield)

Verb group:

sporulate (convert into spores)

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s

Derivation:

sporulation (asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Convert into spores

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "sporulate" is one way to...):

convert (change the nature, purpose, or function of something)

Verb group:

sporulate (produce spores)

Domain category:

botany; phytology (the branch of biology that studies plants)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

 Context examples 

A genus of Gram-positive, aerobic or facultatively anaerobic, non-motile, non-sporulated, rod-shaped Actinobacteria.

(Corynebacterium, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is non-sporulating, has a slender shape with tapered ends and exhibits pleomorphic irregular staining.

(Fusobacterium gonidiaformans, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is sporulating, produces glutamate mutase, hydrolyzes gelatin, is indole positive, lecithinase and lipase negative and does not ferment inositol, glucose or maltose.

(Clostridium cochlearium, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile, sporulating, sacchrolytic, mesophilic, and produces acetate, butanol, ethanol, acetoin and acetyl methyl carbonil from fermentation.

(Clostridium beijerinckii, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is non-sporulating, ferments fructose and glutamate and produces butyric acid as a major metabolic by-product.

(Fusobacterium nucleatum, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is sporulating, ferments glucose and xylose and produces butyric acid and acetic acid as fermentation by-products.

(Clostridium tyrobutyricum, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile, sporulating and produces acetone, butanol and ethanol in fermentation systems using maize mash, molasses, and other feedstocks.

(Clostridium acetobutylicum, NCI Thesaurus)