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SPORE:
The botanical equivalent to the zoological term
cyst. The term spore, or its use as a suffix, is also employed to denote a multiplicative dispersal stage in which numerous cells are produced to distribute the organism, as in the terms
aplanospore,
planospore,
dinospore and
gymnospore.
DINOFLAJ (c) 1998