imperfect stage

American  

noun

Mycology.

1. a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which either no spores or asexual spores, as conidia, are produced.

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Etymology

Origin of imperfect stage

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

The whole treatise, of which this extract is a fragment in a rudimentary and imperfect stage, is, of course, an impassioned appeal for the restoration of the quickening, exuberant imagination, not merely in art, but in all the inmost places of life.

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Universal love is none the less the absolute moral ideal because it would be absurd to say that beasts of prey do wrong in devouring other creatures, or because war is sometimes necessary as a means to the end of love at our present imperfect stage of social and intellectual development.

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Do you not feel that true religion, even in its most imperfect stage, is not merely an escape from hell after death but the only real state for a man—the only position to live in in this world—the only frame of mind which will give anything like happiness here. 

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But her own work, save in some of her short stories, which are pretty perfect, represents the imperfect stage of the development—the stage when the novel is trying for the right methods and struggling to get into the right ways, but has not wholly mastered the one or reached the others.

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It is to be regretted that the experiments of Professor Riedler could not have been conducted with more perfect appliances, but it must be borne in mind that the utilization of compressed air, especially as regards the motors, is still in a very imperfect stage, and that a great deal remains to be done before the maximum power available at the motor can be obtained.

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