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Spore

noun

A small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion.

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... number of small spores. In these processes it often happens that the whole body of the mother, the entire cell, may resolve itself into two or more children; at times, however, a small portion of the mother cell remains unused. This remnant, in the spore-forming unicellular plants represented by the cell wall, is ...

— Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 • Various

Words linked to "Spore" : fern seed, pollen, agamete, conidium