Vocabulary : Sporogony to Sport

Sporogony : The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.
Sporophore : A placenta. ;; That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore.
Sporophoric : Having the nature of a sporophore.
Sporophyte : In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; -- opposed to gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.
Sporosac : A hydrozoan reproductive zooid or gonophore which does not become medusoid in form or structure. See Illust. under Athecata. ;; An early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia.

Sporozoa : An extensive division of parasitic Protozoa, which increase by sporulation. It includes the Gregarinida.
Sporozoid : Same as Zoospore.
Sporozoite : In certain Sporozoa, a small active, usually elongate, sickle-shaped or somewhat amoeboid spore, esp. one of those produced by division of the passive spores into which the zygote divides. The sporozoites reproduce asexually.
Sporran : A large purse or pouch made of skin with the hair or fur on, worn in front of the kilt by Highlanders when in full dress.
Sport : That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement. ;; Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision. ;; That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery. ;; Play; idle jingle. ;; Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked. ;; A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See Sporting plant, under Sporting. ;; A sportsman; a gambler. ;; To play; to frolic; to wanton. ;; To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races. ;; To trifle. ;; To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6. ;; To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun. ;; To represent by any knd of play. ;; To exhibit, or bring out, in public; t