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

Definitions

1. noun. One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species.
2. noun. An embryo sac or embryonal vesicle in the ovules of flowering plants.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. One of the parts formed by fission in certain Protozoa. See Spore formation, belw.
5. noun. 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"

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in spore:

pores, poser, prose, repos, ropes

Common word forms

spored, spores, sporing

Words from these letters

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