Vocabulary : Spore to Sporogenesis

Spore : One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species. ;; An embryo sac or embryonal vesicle in the ovules of flowering plants. ;; A minute grain or germ; a small, round or ovoid body, formed in certain organisms, and by germination giving rise to a new organism; as, the reproductive spores of bacteria, etc. ;; One of the parts formed by fission in certain Protozoa. See Spore formation, belw.
Sporid : A sporidium.
Sporidia : of Sporidium
Sporidiferous : Bearing sporidia.
Sporidium : A secondary spore, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi. ;; A spore.

Sporiferous : Bearing or producing spores.
Sporification : Spore formation. See Spore formation (b), under Spore.
Sporocarp : A closed body or conceptacle containing one or more masses of spores or sporangia. ;; A sporangium.
Sporocyst : An asexual zooid, usually forming one of a series of larval forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and other parasitic worms. The sporocyst generally develops from an egg, but in its turn produces other larvae by internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. See Redia. ;; Any protozoan when it becomes encysted produces germs by sporulation.
Sporogenesis : reproduction by spores.

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