Spore



GRE

解释

GRE 红宝书

• n. 孢子
• ［英］ n. 孢子 ( a very small seedlike, single cell able to develop into a new plant )

Webster Collegiate

I. noun

• Etymology: New Latin spora seed, spore, from Greek, act of sowing, seed, from speirein to sow — more at sperm
• Date: 1836
• a primitive usually unicellular often environmentally resistant dormant or reproductive body produced by plants, fungi, and some microorganisms and capable of development into a new individual either directly or after fusion with another spore
• ? spored adjective

II. intransitive verb (spored; sporing)

• Date: 1866
• to produce or reproduce by spores

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