cryptospores

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A form of cryptospore — A sporelike organic-walled microfossil (palynomorph) that most typically occurs in tightly adherent tetrads or dyads, which is considered to be derived from early land plants (embryophyte) or their immediate algal (streptophyte) ancestors.

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Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of cryptospore
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