Definitions for spore

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Spelling: [spawr, spohr]

IPA: /spɔr, spoʊr/

Spore is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 83 anagrams from letters in spore (eoprs).

Definitions for spore

noun

1. Biology. a walled, single- to many-celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly.
2. a germ, germ cell, seed, or the like.

verb (used without object)

1. to bear or produce spores.

Origin of spore

1830-40; New Latin spora Greek sporá sowing, seed, akin to speírein to sow; see sperm¹

Examples for spore

The spores are globose or nearly so, with a large "nucleus" nearly filling the spore.

The result of the spore development is the spoiling of the food.

spore: a small body formed by a fungus to reproduce the fungus.

spore, another spinoff, taught players about the randomly branching paths evolution can take.

The indusia are soon thrown off when the spore cases start to develop.

The position and shape of the spore are constant for each kind of bacteria.

Within these spore cases, at maturity, are the summer spores.

The CDC says that about 60 percent of the people who inhale the spore do not contract valley fever.

They might really have tried to get him outside the dome, or to get a spore culture inside.

Another point to notice is that the spore cases are stalked.