Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A teliospore.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In botany, in the Uredineæ, a thick-walled spore or pseudospore formed by abscission on a branch of the mycelium (sterigma), and on germination producing a promycelium.

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

  • noun (Bot.) The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer. See Illust. of uredospore.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun botany The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer.

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Greek teleutē, termination (from telos, end; see kwel- in Indo-European roots) + spore.]

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Ancient Greek completion + English spore.

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