Definition of Sporule

1. n. A small spore; a spore.

Definition of Sporule

1. Noun. A small spore ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sporule

1. a small spore [n -S] : SPORULAR [adj]

Medical Definition of Sporule

1. A small spore; a spore. Origin: Dim. Of spore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sporule

sportswriting
sportswritings
sportulary
sportule
sportules
sporty
sporular
sporulate
sporulated
sporulates
sporulating
sporulation
sporulation-specific cell wall hydrolase
sporulations
sporulative
sporule (current term)
sporules
sporuliferous
spose
sposed
sposes
sposh
sposhes
sposhier
sposhiest
sposhy
sposing
spot-backed antshrike
spot-backed antshrikes

Literary usage of Sporule

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

1. The Phytologist: A Popular Botanical Miscellany edited by George Luxford, Edward Newman (1842)
"The young leaf, when rather longer than the sporule, bursts through its sheath, and the root protrudes before it is as long as the ..."

2. Lectures on Clinical Medicine: Delivered at the Hôtel-Dieu, Paris by Armand Trousseau, Pierre Victor Bazire, John Rose Cormack (1870)
"A sporule diffused in the atmosphere can live only in a latent form, ... But if, like the latter, you place the sporule in a place suitable for its living, ..."

3. The London Physiological Journal: Or, Monthly Record of Observations on (1843)
"When the sporule becomes at rest, these organs disappear very quickly, ... It is necessary then to watch the precise moment when the sporule ceases to move, ..."

4. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1897)
"sporule* linear, curved, narrowed and curved above, 12-15 x 1-1 j.". ... sporule« cylindrical, hyaline, occasionally dichotomous, separating into segments ..."

5. Fungi; Their Nature and Uses by Mordecai Cubitt Cooke (1880)
"... diameter of the spore ; then this tube gives rise to four spicules, each of which produces a small obovate or reniform sporule ; the generation of these ..."

6. Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England by Royal Agricultural Society of England (1862)
"11 represents on a large scale the development of the cercaria; as it goes on within the sac from the first bud or sporule to the perfect embryo. ..."

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