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epispore

American  
[ep-i-spawr, -spohr] / ˈɛp ɪˌspɔr, -ˌspoʊr /

noun

Botany, Mycology.
  1. the principal outer covering of a spore.


Etymology

Origin of epispore

First recorded in 1825–35; epi- + spore

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This colour manifests itself rapidly, accumulating exclusively upon the epispore, which becomes of a deep rose, then violet, and finally violet blue, so deep as sometimes to appear quite black.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

The epispore acquires a waxy consistence by this pigmentation, so that it may be detached in granules.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

The oospores of the Saprolegniæ, when arrived at maturity, possess a tolerably thick double integument, consisting of an epispore and an endospore.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

In these the rough tuberculate epispore splits on one side, and its internal coat elongates itself and protrudes as a tube filled with protoplasm and oil globules, terminating in an ordinary sporangium.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

It is to this particular consistency of the epispore that the cracks so frequent in the coloured sporidia of Ascobolus are due, through contraction of the epispore.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

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