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spore

[spawr, spohr] / spɔr, spoʊr /


NOUN
ovum
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When autumn temperatures stay higher for longer, mosses have more time to develop their spore capsules before winter arrives.

From Science Daily • Dec. 21, 2025

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

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

Across the landscape weeds advanced; weeds corkscrewed their way into the walls around him and worked the walls until the weeds became their own spore.

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




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