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spore print

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noun

  1. botany the pattern produced by placing the cap of a mushroom on a piece of paper and allowing the spores to fall

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A spore print may be made in the same manner as from mushrooms having gills.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

They are very small, as fine as dust, and invisible to the naked eye, except as they are seen in masses on the grass, on the ground, or on logs, or in a spore print.

From The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise Its Habitat and its Time of Growth by Hard, Miron Elisha

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