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zoospore
zoospore is a 8-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoospores are produced by many green, and by some olive-brown, algae. In certain species they are divided into the larger macrozoospores and the smaller microzoospores. Called also sporozoid, and swarmspore. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
8 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 20 · 3 senses
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- 1noun
A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoospores are produced by many green, and by some olive-brown, algae. In certain species they are divided into the larger macrozoospores and the smaller microzoospores. Called also sporozoid, and swarmspore.
- 2noun
See Swarmspore.
- 3noun
an asexual spore of some algae and fungi that moves by means of flagella
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