sporule

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   rare or historical biology: a small spore, especially one produced by a cryptogam or microorganism

   Each airborne sporule could develop when moisture returned.

Borrowed from French sporule or New Latin sporula, a diminutive of spora, 'spore'; in English it can also be analyzed as spore + -ule, 'small.' The term is now rare, with spore usually preferred.

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