Spores is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for SPORES in dictionary:

VERB:
• SPORE, to produce an asexual reproductive body
NOUN:
• a minute, typically one-celled, reproductive unit capable of giving rise to a new individual without sexual fusion, characteristic of lower plants, fungi, and protozoans.
• (in a plant exhibiting alternation of generations) a haploid reproductive cell which gives rise to a gametophyte.
• (in bacteria) a rounded resistant form adopted by a bacterial cell in adverse conditions.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to produce spores (asexual, usually single-celled reproductive bodies)

Words related to SPORES

spore7 spored9 sporing10

Words that contain SPORES

oospores10 diaspores12 epispores13 exospores18 zoospores20 ascospores14 autospores12 auxospores19 endospores13 megaspores15 meiospores14 zygospores25 aeciospores15 archespores18 azygospores26 carpospores17 macrospores17 microspores17 pycnospores20 teliospores13 tetraspores13 uredospores14 aecidospores17 aplanospores16 arthrospores17 blastospores16 urediospores15 aecidiospores18 basidiospores18 conidiospores18 teleutospores15 ballistospores18 chlamydospores27 parthenospores21 pycnidiospores24 urediniospores17 sporangiospores20

How to use SPORES in a sentence

• A plant may throw off bulbs, but these, sooner or later, give rise to seeds or spores, which develop into the original form.
• The spores produced in myriads were brought over in the wind, and first attacked the potato crops in the Isle of Wight, and then spread over the south of England.
• Instead of seeds the fern produces spores, which are little one-celled bodies without an embryo and may be likened to buds.
• As the spores mature, the ring contracts and bursts with considerable force, scattering the spores.
• The fertile portion dies when the spores mature, but the sterile frondlets remain green through the winter.
• Occasionally these spores may consist of two or more cells.
• He learned that its spores are encased in a gelatinous sac which resisted the entrance of the chemicals.
• Grains of fine sand or spores are scattered over the surface, and the edge of the plate is bowed.
• At maturity these spores break up as at B, and are the means of reproducing the fungus.
• Sometimes by a peculiar process it breaks up into numerous small fragments called spores, which also receive portions of the parent nucleus.
• Its terminal tier gives rise to the capsule, the first divisions in the four cells of the tier marking off the wall of the capsule from the cells destined to produce the spores.
• The capsule opens by splitting into two valves from the apex downwards, and the mature spores escape while others are developing in succession below.
• In a number of forms, which were formerly grouped together, the capsule does not open to liberate the spores.
• The notion of evolution is a belief that all living beings, plants as well as animals, have not been created, but, like Topsy, just grew, from the very smallest germs or spores.
• On the other hand, high temperature will kill them, but the spores may survive even the boiling temperature.
• The spores, which finally become full-fledged bacteria, are able to stand a more unfavorable environment than the adult bacteria.
• In other cases spores form within the cell which become free and develop further into complete organisms.

Similar words containing SPORE without suffix s

spore7 spored9 oospore9 diaspore11 epispore12 exospore17 oospores10 zoospore19 ascospore13 autospore11 auxospore18 diaspores12 endospore12 epispores13 exospores18 megaspore14 meiospore13 zoospores20 zygospore24 sporelike15 aeciospore14 archespore17 ascospores14 autospores12 auxospores19 azygospore25 carpospore16 endospores13 macrospore16 megaspores15 meiospores14 microspore16 pycnospore19 teliospore12 tetraspore12 uredospore13 zygospores25 aecidospore16 aeciospores15 aplanospore15 archespores18 arthrospore16 azygospores26 blastospore15 carpospores17 macrospores17 microspores17 pycnospores20 teliospores13 tetraspores13 urediospore14 uredospores14 aecidiospore17 aecidospores17 aplanospores16 arthrospores17 basidiospore17 blastospores16 conidiospore17 teleutospore14 urediospores15 aecidiospores18 ballistospore17 basidiospores18 chlamydospore26 conidiospores18 parthenospore20 pycnidiospore23 teleutospores15 urediniospore16 ballistospores18 chlamydospores27 parthenospores21 pycnidiospores24 sporangiospore19 urediniospores17 sporangiospores20

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