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spore
spore is a 5-letter English word with 5 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 5 senses
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- 1noun
One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species.
- 2noun
An embryo sac or embryonal vesicle in the ovules of flowering plants.
- 3noun
A minute grain or germ; a small, round or ovoid body, formed in certain organisms, and by germination giving rise to a new organism; as, the reproductive spores of bacteria, etc.
- 4noun
One of the parts formed by fission in certain Protozoa. See Spore formation, belw.
- 5noun
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
"a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes"
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