English Explanatory Dictionary

sporidium

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A secondary spore borne on a promycelium, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi.
  2. An ascospore.
  3. Any spore.

Word forms

sporidium sporidia

Etymology

From New Latin sporidium, from Ancient Greek σπορά (sporá, “seed”) + -idium.

Related words

sporidiferous

Derived words

microsporidium sarcosporidium
This entry uses open data from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA/GFDL). Word forms are used for search and are not indexed as separate pages.
Back to search All on S Russian dictionary Dahl dictionary