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| adder's-tongue |
any of various ferns with a single sporeless leaflike frond and a slender spore-bearing spike or stalk that suggests a snake's tongue. [1/2 definitions] |
| botulinum |
a spore-forming bacterium (Clostridium botulinum) that produces botulin toxin under anaerobic conditions. |
| clostridium |
any of a genus of spore-forming, anaerobic bacteria, Clostridium, that inhabits soil or the intestinal tract of humans. |
| conidium |
in fungi, an asexual spore formed at the tip of a specialized structure. |
| horsetail |
any of various nonflowering, spore-producing plants that have hollow jointed stems with narrow sheathlike leaves. |
| placenta |
the part of a plant that contains developing seeds or spore cases. [1/2 definitions] |
| slime mold |
any of various funguslike organisms characterized by a noncellular, motile phase and a propagative, spore-bearing phase. |
| sporangium |
a plant cell or organ such as a sac or branch that produces spores; spore case. |
| sporo- |
spore. |
| sporule |
a small spore. |
| stroma |
in mycology, a mass of fungal tissue containing spore-bearing structures. [1/3 definitions] |
| theca |
in biology, a case, covering, or sac that encloses an organ, part, or entire organism, such as the horny covering of an insect pupa or the spore case of a moss capsule. |
| zygospore |
in botany, a spore formed by the joining of two similar gametes, as in certain algae and fungi. |
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