ENDOSPORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does endospore mean? 

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

1. a small asexual spore that develops inside the cell of some bacteria and algae

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENDOSPORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small asexual spore that develops inside the cell of some bacteria and algae

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("endospore" 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)

 Context examples 

This species does not form endospores, is oxidase and catalase negative, and non motile.

(Gemella haemolysans, NCI Thesaurus)

A germicide that inactivates all microbial pathogens, except small numbers of bacterial endospores.

(High-level Disinfectant Sterilization, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of moderately halophilic, endospore forming, round bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes and the family Planococcaceae.

(Jeotgalibacillus, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of gram-positive, obligate anaerobic bacteria in the Firmicutes phylum capable of producing endospores.

(Clostridium, NCI Thesaurus)

This species does not form endospores, is oxidase and catalase negative, non motile, and produces phosphoamidase.

(Gemella bergeri, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is endospore forming, hemolytic, requires the presence of thiols to grow in culture and produces a variety of toxins.

(Clostridium novyi, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is endospore forming, utilizes ethylene glycol as an energy source, is indole and catalase negative and does not hydrolyze esculin.

(Clostridium glycolicum, NCI Thesaurus)

A genus of motile, Gram positive, endospore forming rod shaped bacterium assigned to the phylum Firmicutes and the family Bacillaceae.

(Gracilibacillus, NCI Thesaurus)

This species is motile, produces the type E toxin, can only grow in the absence of oxygen, produces butyric acid, forms endospores and ferments granulose.

(Clostridium butyricum, NCI Thesaurus)