See Also: sporo-(medicine)
sporo-(dictionary)

sporo- (iou)



sporo- combining form.
[from SPORE or directly from Latin, Greek spora: see -O-.]
Biology. Of or relating to the spores of plants or micro-organisms or to elementary forms of animal life.
sporoblast noun a cell which gives rise to spores or similar structures, or sporozoites L19.
sporocarp noun (Botany) an organ which bears spores; esp. (a) a fruiting body of a fungus; (b) a hard rounded body at the base of an aquatic pteridophyte, containing the sporangia: M19.
sporocyst noun (Zoology) (a) a parasitic trematode in the initial stage of infection in a mollusc host, developed from a miracidium and in turn forming a redia; (b) in sporozoans etc., an encysted zygote in an invertebrate host: M19.
sporocyte noun = sporoblast L19.
sporo'dochium noun, pl. -ia, [Greek dokhe receptacle], Mycology a fruiting body composed of an exposed mass of conidia on a cushion-like layer of short conidiophores E20.
sporo'genesis noun the formation of spores L19.
spo'rogenous adjective (of an organism, a tissue) producing spores L19.
sporo'gonium noun, pl. -ia, Botany the sporophyte of a bryophyte, represented by the capsule and its seta L19.
spo'rogony noun (Zoology) the asexual fission of a sporont to produce spores L19.
sporophore noun (Botany) a spore-bearing process or structure, esp. a conidiophore M19.
sporophyll noun (Botany) a modified leaf bearing sporangia; esp. any of the scalelike leaves in the terminal spike of a clubmoss: L19.
sporosac noun (Zoology) in some hydrozoans, a stalked organ in which gametes develop M19.