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spore

[spawr, spohr] / spɔr, spoʊr /


NOUN
ovum
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His journey with the spore started in 2022, when he and colleague Andrew Luzmore began collaborating with Hill-Maini, identifying various kitchen waste streams that might be good candidates for fermentation.

From Salon • Nov. 12, 2024

The four additional episodes of high Hg concentrations and high fern spore malformations were unlikely connected to later phases of Central Atlantic Magmatic Province volcanism.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2024

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

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

By 1945, milky spore disease was raging among the beetle populations of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Maryland.

From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson




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