Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The outermost layer of the wall of certain spores.
- noun An asexual spore developed externally by budding, as from a sporophore.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The outer coat of a spore, corresponding to the extine of pollen-grains: same as
epispore . - noun An outer coat of dried protoplasm adhering to the surface of a spore, as to the resting-spores of Peronospora and Mucor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Biol.) The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
outer layer of aspore , especially in somealgae andfungi
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The exospore often bears spines or warts, or is variously sculptured, and the character of the markings is often of value for the distinction of genera or higher groups.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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a double wall, a thin delicate wall of unaltered cellulose, the endospore or intine, and a tough outer cuticularized exospore or extine.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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