spore, n.1. Bot. One of the minute reproductive bodies characteristic of flowerless plants.
2. Zool. and Biol. A very minute germ or organism.
3. a. attrib., as spore-capsule, -cell, -dot, -fruit, -germ, -sac, -theca, -wall; spore print, a permanent image of the spore-producing structures of a fungal fruiting body, made by allowing spores to fall a short distance on to a surface where they adhere.
b. Comb., as spore-bearing, -forming, -producing.
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2. Zool. and Biol. A very minute germ or organism.
3. a. attrib., as spore-capsule, -cell, -dot, -fruit, -germ, -sac, -theca, -wall; spore print, a permanent image of the spore-producing structures of a fungal fruiting body, made by allowing spores to fall a short distance on to a surface where they adhere.
b. Comb., as spore-bearing, -forming, -producing.
