Definition of Exospores

1. Noun. (plural of exospore) ¹

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Definition of Exospores

1. exospore [n] - See also: exospore

Lexicographical Neighbors of Exospores

exoskeletons
exosmic
exosmose
exosmoses
exosmosis
exosmotic
exosolar planet
exosolar planets
exosome
exosome complex
exosomes
exosphere
exospheres
exospheric
exospore
exospores (current term)
exosporia
exosporium
exossation
exosseous
exosstate
exostectomy
exostema
exostemas
exostome
exostomes
exostosectomy
exostoses
exostosis
exostosis bursata

Literary usage of Exospores

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

1. A Textbook of Bacteriology: A Practical Treatise for Students and by Hans Zinsser, Frederick Fuller Russell (1922)
"Basidiospores are exospores produced on a special type of sporophore, known as a basidium. The number of spores on a basidium is limited and constant for a ..."

2. Lessons and Laboratory Exercises in Bacteriology: An Outline of Technical by Allen John Smith (1902)
"Such spores, while probably always truly within the bacterial body in their formation (hence endos pores}, are sometimes seen free (exospores) in the midst ..."

3. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"In many Fungi germ cells are isolated by budding and constriction from certain hyphae as exospores or CONIDIOSPORES (Fig. 224). ..."

4. Class-book of Botany: Being Outlines of the Structure, Physiology and by Alphonso Wood (1861)
"... of ferns and mosses consist of tissues rather than of single cells, and contain division of the Cryptogams into the En- pores and the exospores. ..."

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