hormospores

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A form of hormospore — A spore similar in origin to stylospores or teleutospores of fungi, colourless, dividing into cells, microgonidia, etc., with deliquescence of the mother cell, the microgonidia developing into heterocysts.

Scrabble 18

Meanings

noun
  1. pluralplural of hormospore
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