spore fruit

American  

noun

Botany, Mycology.

1. a spore-bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp.

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Etymology

Origin of spore fruit

First recorded in 1855–60

Example Sentences

D I, II young procarps. tr. trichogyne. iii, young; iv, ripe spore fruit.

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F, spore fruit of Polysiphonia.

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C–F, development of the spore fruit, × 300. ar. archicarp.

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H, the spore sac removed from the spore fruit, × 150.

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These branches soon grow together, and cross-walls are formed in them, so that the young spore fruit  appears surrounded by a single layer of cells, sufficiently transparent, however, to allow a view of the interior.

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