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sporoplasm

[ spawr-uh-plaz-uh m, spohr- ]

/ ˈspɔr əˌplæz əm, ˈspoʊr- /

noun

the protoplasm within a spore that is injected into a host cell by various parasitic organisms.

Words nearby sporoplasm

sporogony, sporont, sporophore, sporophyll, sporophyte, sporoplasm, sporopollenin, sporothrix, sporotrichosis, sporozoa, sporozoan

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Spores having the form of an anchor with six arms; sporoplasm plasmodial, situate near the anterior pole of the spore.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3|Various
Spores with two polar-capsules, and without an iodinophilous vacuole in the sporoplasm.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3|Various
The sporoplasm may be either a plasmodial mass, with numerous nuclei, or may form a certain number of uninuclear sporozoites.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3|Various
The sporoplasm, representing the sporozoite, is always single.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3|Various

Hence it is possible that the Myxosporidian sporoplasm really consists of two, incompletely-divided (sister) germs.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3|Various

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