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HOMOSPORY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does homospory mean?
• HOMOSPORY (noun)
The noun HOMOSPORY has 1 sense:
1. the development of a single kind of asexual spores
Familiarity information: HOMOSPORY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The development of a single kind of asexual spores
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("homospory" is a kind of...):
monogenesis; sporulation (asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores)
Derivation:
homosporous (characterized by homospory)
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