Definition of Chlamydospore

1. Noun. Thick-walled asexual resting spore of certain fungi and algae.

Generic synonyms: Spore
Specialized synonyms: Teliospore

Definition of Chlamydospore

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chlamydospore

chlamydia pneumoniae
chlamydia psittaci
chlamydiaceae
chlamydiaceae infections
chlamydiae
chlamydial
chlamydial arthritis
chlamydiales
chlamydias
chlamydiosis
chlamydomonas reinhardtii
chlamydoselachid
chlamydoselachids
chlamydospore (current term)
chlamydospores
chlamyphore
chlamyphores
chlamyses
chleuasmos
chloasma
chloasma bronzinum
chloasmas
chloasmata
chlodronate
chlophedianol hydrochloride
chlor-
chloracetic acid

Literary usage of Chlamydospore

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"... basidium arises from the chlamydospore; in the former it is septate and conidia are cut off laterally, in the latter it is non-septate and the conidia ..."

2. Forms of Animal Life: A Manual of Comparative Anatomy : with Descriptions of by George Rolleston, William Hatchett Jackson (1888)
"When it passes into a chlamydospore it becomes globular, secretes a membrane and then contracts into a small globular or ellipsoidal body. ..."

3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1914)
"Thus, e. д., the nuclear fusion in the smuts often occurs in the chlamydospore, according to Dangeard (1893) and Rawitscher (1912), and reduction evidently ..."

4. The Journal of Infectious Diseases by Infectious Diseases Society of America, John Rockefeller McCormick Memorial Fund, John McCormick Institute for Infectious Diseases (1914)
"I wish to suggest here that those who may have occasion to study the properties of sporothrix strains should observe whether chlamydospore formation occurs ..."

5. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1896)
"... however, the spindle ends in a short, sharp point or in a bulbous end. In our investigation we have never met with the variety of chlamydospore which ..."

6. A Treatise on Zoology by Edwin Ray Lankester (1903)
"The pointed extremity of the chlamydospore is occupied by a clear space, about 5-6 p. in length, in which a delicate spiral striation can be seen in the ..."

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