Definition of Conidiospore

1. Noun. An asexually produced fungal spore formed on a conidiophore.

Exact synonyms: Conidium
Generic synonyms: Spore

Definition of Conidiospore

1. Noun. (biology) A unicellular spore produced asexually by a fungus ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Conidiospore

1. An asexual spore produced in a chain from a condiophore. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conidiospore

conically
conicalness
conichalcite
conicities
conicity
conico-
conics
conidia
conidial
conidian
conidiation
conidiogenesis
conidiogenous
conidiophore
conidiophores
conidiospores
conies
conifer
coniferin
coniferization
coniferophyte
coniferophytes
coniferous
coniferous tree
conifers
coniferyl-alcohol oxidase
coniferyl alcohol
coniferyl alcohol dehydrogenase

Literary usage of Conidiospore

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

1. A Text-book of Mycology and Plant Pathology by John William Harshberger (1917)
"... a conidium, or conidiospore. He regarded the ascus as potentially a sporangium, but recent discoveries have shown this hypothetic view to be untenable, ..."

2. The Publications of the Pennsylvania Chestnut Tree Blight Commission, 1911-1913 by Chestnut Tree Blight Commission, Pennsylvania (1915)
"DIl FERENTIATION OF ASCOSPORE AND conidiospore COLONIES ON PETRI DISH CULTURES. The tests made in hanging drop cultures in regard to the rapidity of ..."

3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1906)
"A mature conidiospore, showing the vacuolated cytoplasm (probably filled when living with oil-globules), the single nucleus, and the basal papilla which has ..."

4. Fungous Diseases of Plants: With Chapters on Physiology, Culture Methods and by Benjamin Minge Duggar (1909)
"... Ascomycetes in general applies in particular to this group, these stages being manifold, so far as the method of conidiospore production is concerned. ..."

5. The Causes and Course of Organic Evolution: A Study of Bioenergics by John Muirhead MacFarlane (1918)
"Each conidiospore is passive and nou-ciliate. But as Phillips has shown, and as the writer has often observed, there is a strong tendency toward production ..."

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