sporoplasm

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

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

Origin of sporoplasm

1
First recorded in 1890–95; sporo- + -plasm

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