-sporous

American  

1. a combining form meaning “having spores” of the kind specified by the initial element.

   helicosporous.

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-sporous British  

combining form

1. (in botany) having a specified type or number of spores

   homosporous

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Usage

What does -sporous mean? The combining form -sporous is used like a suffix meaning “having spores.” It is often used in scientific terms, especially in biology. The form -sporous ultimately comes from the Greek sporá, meaning “sowing” and “seed.”What are variants of -sporous?The form -sporous is often used as an adjective form of words ending in the related form -spore, used in nouns such as teliospore. When used at the beginning of a word like a prefix, -spore becomes spor-, spori-, or sporo- depending on the origin or first letter of the word or word element it is combined with. Want to know more? Read our Words That Use articles for spor-, spori-, sporo-, and -spore.

Etymology

Origin of -sporous

< Greek -sporos; see spore, -ous