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Definition of Sporulate
1. Verb. Produce spores. "Plants sporulate"
Generic synonyms: Bring Forth, Produce
Derivative terms: Sporulation
2. Verb. Convert into spores.
Definition of Sporulate
1. Verb. To produce spores ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sporulate
1. [v -LATED, -LATING, -LATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sporulate
Literary usage of Sporulate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1898)
"The segments of a filament that are preparing to sporulate lose their hyaline
aspect, their substance becoming granular and more opaque. ..."
2. The Common Bacterial Infections of the Digestive Tract and the Intoxications by Christian Archibald Herter (1907)
"almost certainly B. aerogenes capsulatus on account of their morphology and
failure to sporulate. The bacilli of symptomatic anthrax readily sporulate in ..."
3. The Endemic Diseases of the Southern States by William Heiskell Deaderick, Loyd Oscar Thompson (1916)
"It is remarkable in multiple infections by different generations of the same
species of parasite that they almost always sporulate on different days and ..."
4. A Practical Study of Malaria by William Heiskell Deaderick (1909)
"It is remarkable in multiple infections by different generations of the same
species of parasite that they almost always sporulate on different days and ..."
5. Bacteriology of milk by Harold William Swithinbank, Sir George Newman (1903)
"If the supply of nutriment fails they sporulate.1 It should be understood that
... But many organisms will not sporulate if lying 1 Yeast can be effectually ..."
6. The Treatment of Disease: A Manual of Practical Medicine by Reynold Webb Wilcox (1910)
"These are larger than those which sporulate and contain pigment granules in active
movement. These are a sexually different type of the parasite. ..."
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