ascospore

Other forms: ascospores

Definitions of ascospore
  1. noun
    sexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus
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    spore
    a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion
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