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TETRASPORE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tetraspore mean?
• TETRASPORE (noun)
The noun TETRASPORE has 1 sense:
1. one of the four asexual spores produced within a sporangium
Familiarity information: TETRASPORE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the four asexual spores produced within a sporangium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("tetraspore" 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)
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