sporogenous

[spuh-roj-uh-nuh s]

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adjective

of or relating to spores or spore production.

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Origin of sporogenous

First recorded in 1885–90; sporo- + -genous

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Related Words for sporogenous

ancestral, historical, hereditary, patrimonial, digenetic, eugenic, genital, matriclinous, sporogenous

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Historical Examples of sporogenous

Sporogenous rodlets, drumstick-shaped:—Plectridium (Fischer), motile (peritrichous).
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