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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. One of the spores in red algæ (Florideæ) that are produced in the cystocarp as a result of sexual fertilization.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algae.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algæ.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a nonmotile spore of red algae

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  1. Ancient Greek fruit + spore. (Wiktionary)

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  1. spore

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  1. cystospore
  1. carposperm
  1. carposporic

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