spore

Noun
  1. 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 (synset 111568306)
    "a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes"
    is a type of: agamete - an asexual reproductive cell
    subtypes:
    • basidiospore - a sexually produced fungal spore borne on a basidium
    • endospore - a small asexual spore that develops inside the cell of some bacteria and algae
    • carpospore - a nonmotile spore of red algae
    • chlamydospore - thick-walled asexual resting spore of certain fungi and algae
    • conidiospore, conidium - an asexually produced fungal spore formed on a conidiophore
    • oospore - a thick-walled sexual spore that develops from a fertilized oosphere in some algae and fungi
    • resting spore - a spore of certain algae or fungi that lies dormant; may germinate after a prolonged period
    • tetraspore - one of the four asexual spores produced within a sporangium
    • zoospore - an asexual spore of some algae and fungi that moves by means of flagella
    • fern seed - the asexual spore of ferns that resembles dust; once thought to be seeds and to make the possessor invisible
    • pollen - the fine spores that contain male gametes and that are borne by an anther in a flowering plant
    • microspore - smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in the pollen sac into a male gametophyte
    • macrospore, megaspore - larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte
    • aeciospore - spore of a rust fungus formed in an aecium
    • ascospore - sexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus
    • zygospore - a plant spore formed by two similar sexual cells

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