Dictionary.com Thesaurus.com

gymnospore

American

[jim-nuh-spawr, -spohr] / ˈdʒɪm nəˌspɔr, -ˌspoʊr /

noun

Botany.

a naked spore, especially one not produced in a sporangium or one lacking a protective envelope.

Other Word Forms

gymnosporous adjective

Etymology

Origin of gymnospore

First recorded in 1880–85; gymno- + -spore

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.