name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
spore
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: spô
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Received-Pronunciation: /spɔː(ɹ)/
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Southern-England: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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Canada, General-American: spôr
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Canada, General-American: /spoɹ/
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Australian, New-Zealand: /spoː(ɹ)/
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spōr rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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/spo(ː)ɹ/ rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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/spoə/ non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger
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homophone: spoor (accents with the pour–poor merger)
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rhymes with -ɔː(ɹ)
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CMU ARPABET: S P AO1 R Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
A reproductive particle, usually a single cell, released by a fungus, alga, or plant that may germinate into another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Meaning relationships
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noun
Meaning 3
A thick resistant particle produced by a bacterium or protist to survive in harsh or unfavorable conditions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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verb
Meaning 4
To produce spores.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: agamete
Narrower terms: basidiospore, endospore, carpospore, chlamydospore, conidium, conidiospore, oospore, resting spore, tetraspore, zoospore, fern seed, pollen, microspore, megaspore, macrospore, aeciospore, ascospore, zygospore
History
Etymology
From New Latin spora, from Ancient Greek σπορά (sporá, “seed”), related to σπόρος (spóros, “sowing”) and σπείρω (speírō, “to sow”). Related to English spread).
Across languages
Translations
58 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Afrikaans: spoor — reproductive particle
- Armenian: սպոր (spor) — reproductive particle
- Armenian: բեղմնիկ (beġmnik) — reproductive particle
- Bulgarian: спо́ра (spóra) — reproductive particle
- Catalan: espora — reproductive particle
- Cherokee: ᎠᏴᎩᏍᏗ (ayvgisdi) — reproductive particle
- Chinese Mandarin: 孢子 (bāozǐ) — reproductive particle
- Czech: spora — reproductive particle
- Czech: výtrus — reproductive particle
- Dutch: spoor — reproductive particle
- Esperanto: sporo — reproductive particle
- Estonian: eos — reproductive particle
- Estonian: spoor — reproductive particle
- Finnish: itiö — reproductive particle
- French: spore — reproductive particle
- German: Spore — reproductive particle
- Greek: σπόριο (spório) — reproductive particle
- Hebrew: נבג (néveg) — reproductive particle
- Hindi: बीजाणु (bījāṇu) — reproductive particle
- Hungarian: spóra — reproductive particle
- Icelandic: gró — reproductive particle
- Ido: sporo — reproductive particle
- Indonesian: spora — reproductive particle
- Irish: spór — reproductive particle
- Italian: spora — reproductive particle
- Japanese: 胞子 (hōshi) — reproductive particle
- Māori: pua atua — reproductive particle
- Māori: pata — reproductive particle
- Norwegian Bokmål: spore — reproductive particle
- Norwegian Nynorsk: spore — reproductive particle
- Persian: اسپور (espor) — reproductive particle
- Persian: هاگ (hâg) — reproductive particle
- Polish: zarodnik — reproductive particle
- Polish: spora — reproductive particle
- Portuguese: esporo — reproductive particle
- Romanian: spor — reproductive particle
- Romanian: spori — reproductive particle
- Russian: спо́ра (spóra) — reproductive particle
- Slovene: spora — reproductive particle
- Slovene: tros — reproductive particle
- Spanish: espora — reproductive particle
- Spanish: esporo — reproductive particle
- Swahili: spora — reproductive particle
- Swedish: spor — reproductive particle
- Thai: สปอร์ (sà-bpɔɔ) — reproductive particle
- Ukrainian: спо́ра (spóra) — reproductive particle
- Vietnamese: bào tử — reproductive particle
- Catalan: espora — resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist
- Czech: spora — resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist
- Finnish: itiö — resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist
- Hungarian: spóra — resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist
- Italian: spora — resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist
- Polish: przetrwalnik — resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist
- Polish: spora — resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist
- Spanish: espora — resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist
- Spanish: esporo — resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist
- Turkish: spor — resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist
- Ukrainian: спо́ра (spóra) — resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist