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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Forming spores endogenously within a cell or spore-cavity: in bacteriology, opposed to arthrosporous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Bot.) Having the spores contained in a case; -- applied to fungi.

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  • adjective botany Having the spores contained in a case; applied to fungi.

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endo- + -sporous

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