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   spore

   /spɔː/

   noun

   • 1. a minute, typically one-celled, reproductive unit capable of giving rise to a new individual without sexual fusion, characteristic of lower plants, fungi, and protozoans.
   • ▪ (in a plant exhibiting alternation of generations) a haploid reproductive cell which gives rise to a gametophyte.
   • ▪ (in bacteria) a rounded resistant form adopted by a bacterial cell in adverse conditions.

   Word Origin mid 19th century: from modern Latin spora, from Greek spora ‘sowing, seed’, from speirein ‘to sow’.

   Scrabble Points: 7

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