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noun
A secondary spore borne on a promycelium, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi.
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Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
An ascospore.
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noun
Any spore.
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History
From New Latin sporidium, from Ancient Greek σπορά (sporá, “seed”) + -idium.
