cryptospore

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.

Word forms

cryptospore cryptospores
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