CHLAMYDOSPORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chlamydospore mean? 

• CHLAMYDOSPORE (noun)
  The noun CHLAMYDOSPORE has 1 sense:

1. thick-walled asexual resting spore of certain fungi and algae

  Familiarity information: CHLAMYDOSPORE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHLAMYDOSPORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thick-walled asexual resting spore of certain fungi and algae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("chlamydospore" is a kind of...):

spore (a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chlamydospore"):

teliospore (a chlamydospore that develops in the last stage of the life cycle of the rust fungus)