spore

For a mushroom to grow, a fungal spore has to set up shop on a surface and produce mycelia.

From New York Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

The spores were then spiked onto surgical scrubs and patient gowns, examined using scanning electron microscopes to establish if there were any morphological changes to the outer spore coat.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 21, 2023

It produces a type of cell called a spore, which is very resistant to heating.

From Salon ● Nov. 1, 2023

IRVINE, Calif. — A drone flies over a peaceful Southern California marsh and unleashes a rain of larvae-killing bacterial spore pellets.

From Washington Times ● Jun. 29, 2023

The spore expanded, split, and burst within the corrupted steel and shards of concrete that had formerly been walls.

From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick

They also cultivated spores under laboratory conditions to examine the fungus's physical characteristics and sequenced its genome, including its protein-coding genes.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

One possible explanation involves how the fungus releases and spreads its spores.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 26, 2026

"It smells horrible," he said, explaining the fungus attracts flies which help spread its spores.

From BBC ● Sep. 27, 2026

Mr. Boorman managed to injure himself gravely by whipping up dust storms on the Warner Bros. lot; fungal spores got into his lungs and he contracted a rare, sometimes debilitating disease called Valley Fever.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026

It is up to the wind to spread the spores far from the blasted forest.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan

The Oita prefecture produces 40% of Japan’s shiitake mushrooms, spored in the trunks of sawtooth oaks.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 19, 2017

The plants are small, sessile, or attached by a very short stem; closed at first, then expanding until nearly plane; disk yellow, smooth; asci clavate, 8 spored; spores hyaline, smooth.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

So also with the pink spored, rusty spored, black spored, and others.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke

Most of the former are firmer, while the black spored specimens soon deliquesce.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Miron Elisha Hard

Three types of spores may be said to prevail in the Tuberacei: the smooth spored, the warted or spinulose, and the areolate.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke

Lack of rain combined with several days of hard frost in a row will prevent mushrooms from sporing in the fall.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 16, 2022

Some are just starting to bear fruiting bodies, or sporing bodies.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2022

This discoloration happens as the mushroom passes through the sporing process, and can result in overwhelming bitter notes, which the drying process helps dissipate.

From Salon ● Jan. 9, 2022

For the morning glory that spreads its petals at dawn, for geese flying south in autumn, for locusts swarming every 17 years and even for lowly slime molds sporing in daily cycles, timing is everything.

From Scientific American ● Nov. 13, 2014

Streaming steam—i. e., steam at 100°C.—destroys the vegetative forms of bacteria in from fifteen to twenty minutes, and the sporing forms in from one to two hours.

From The Elements of Bacteriological Technique A Laboratory Guide for Medical, Dental, and Technical Students. Second Edition Rewritten and Enlarged. by J. W. H. (John William Henry) Eyre