| sporicide | An agent that kills spores. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| sporid | <botany> A sporidium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sporidesmins | A group of related mycotoxins produced by the pasture fungus pithomyces chartarum (formerly sporidesmium bakeri); causes liver damage and facial eczema in cattle and sheep. (12 Dec 1998) |
| sporidiferous | <botany> Bearing sporidia. Origin: Sporidium. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sporidium | Origin: NL. See Spore. <botany> A secondary spore, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi. A spore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sporiferous | <biology> Bearing or producing spores. Origin: Spore. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sporification | <biology> Spore formation. See Spore formation, under Spore. Origin: Spore + L. -ficare (in comp) to make. See -fy. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| sporo- | Seed, spore. Origin: G. Sporos (05 Mar 2000) |
| sporoagglutination | A diagnostic method in relation to the mycoses, based upon the fact that the blood of patients with diseases caused by fungi contains specific agglutinins that cause clumping of the spores of these organisms. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sporoblast | An early stage in the development of a sporocyst prior to differentiation of the sporozoites. See: oocyst, sporocyst, pansporoblast. Synonym: zygotomere. Origin: sporo-+ G. Blastos, germ (05 Mar 2000) |
| sporocarp | A fruiting body containing sporangia. (09 Oct 1997) |
| sporocyst | 1. <zoology> An asexual zooid, usually forming one of a series of larval forms in the agamic reproduction of various trematodes and other parasitic worms. The sporocyst generally develops from an egg, but in its turn produces other larvae by internal budding, or by the subdivision of a part or all of its contents into a number of minute germs. See Redia. 2. <zoology> Any protozoan when it becomes encysted produces germs by sporulation. Origin: Gr. Seed + bladder. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| Sporocystinea | In older classification schemes, a suborder of Coccidia in which the sporoblasts develop sporocysts. Origin: sporo + G. Kystis, bladder (05 Mar 2000) |
| sporodochium | In fungi, a cushion-shaped stroma covered with conidiophores. (05 Mar 2000) |
| sporogenesis | <biology> Reproduction by spores. Origin: Spore + genesis. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |