sporidium

Etymology

From New Latin sporidium, from Latin spora. See spore.

noun

  1. (botany) A secondary spore borne on a promycelium, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi.
  2. An ascospore.
  3. Any spore.

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