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Definition of Epispore
1. n. The thickish outer coat of certain spores.
Definition of Epispore
1. Noun. (botany) The thickish outer coat of certain spores. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Epispore
1. the outermost layer of a spore-wall [n -S]
Medical Definition of Epispore
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Epispore
Literary usage of Epispore
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Micrographic Dictionary: A Guide to the Examination and Investigation of by John William Griffith, Arthur Henfrey (1883)
"This swells ; and the spores become rounded, separating from each other ; and
the upper part of the epispore begins to dissolve. The spores become removed ..."
2. Rust, smut, mildew, & mould: an introduction to the study of microscopic fungi by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1878)
"Produced in the inflorescence; mass of spores black-brown; spores rounder elongated
and irregularly flattened ('006-'01 mm.) ; olive-brown; epispore very ..."
3. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physical by Julius Sachs (1882)
"... epispore, the development of which has been very fully but not very intelligibly
described and figured by Russow. According to him the mucilaginous ..."
4. Fungi by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke, Miles Joseph Berkeley (1877)
"The epispore acquires a waxy consistence by this pigmentation, ... It is to this
particular consistency of the epispore that the cracks so frequent in the ..."
5. A Text-book of Plant Diseases Caused by Cryptogamic Parasites by George Massee (1907)
"epispore of oospore rugulose or netted. Peronospora trichotoma, Massee, Journ.
Linn. Soc. (£ot.), xxiv. 45, 2 figs. (1888). ..."