"Microspore" is a word in ENGLISH

One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi. [See Illust. of Ascus.]

One of several spores growing in a series or chain, and produced by one of the fungi called brand.

One of the cases containing the spores, etc., of flowerless plants, especially of algae.

A curious fungus of the genus Geaster, in which the outer coating splits into the shape of a star, and …

A bud spore; one of the small spores or buds in the reproduction of certain Protozoa, which separate one at …

One of the reproductive spores of algae.

One of the great division of fungi, containing those species which have naked spores borne on free or only fasciculate …

Producing but one kind of spore, as the ferns and Equiseta. Cf. Heterosporic.

One of a class of cellular, flowerless plants, (technically called Lichenes), having no distinction of leaf and stem, usually of …

One of the specially large spores of certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella, etc.

One of several spores arranged in a chain as in certain algae of the genus Callithamnion.

One of the nonsexual spores found in red algae; a tetraspore.

One of the parts formed by fission in certain Protozoa. See Spore formation, belw.

One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species.

A closed body or conceptacle containing one or more masses of spores or sporangia.

A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds.

A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoospores …