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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 sporesplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


HOMOSPORY (noun)


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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