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cryptospore

cryptospore noun: a sporelike organic-walled microfossil (palynomorph) that most typically occurs in tightly adherent tetrads or dyads, which is considered to be derived from early land plants (embryophyte) or their immediate algal (streptophyte) ancestors.

Noun

cryptospore (plural cryptospores)

  1. A sporelike organic-walled microfossil (palynomorph) that most typically occurs in tightly adherent tetrads or dyads, which is considered to be derived from early land plants (embryophyte) or their immediate algal (streptophyte) ancestors.

Forms of cryptospore

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Questions about cryptospore

What does cryptospore mean?
Cryptospore means a sporelike organic-walled microfossil (palynomorph) that most typically occurs in tightly adherent tetrads or dyads, which is considered to be derived from early land plants (embryophyte) or their immediate algal (streptophyte) ancestors.
What part of speech is cryptospore?
Cryptospore is a noun.
What is the plural of cryptospore?
The plural of cryptospore is cryptospores.

Words near cryptospore in the dictionary

  1. cryptospace
  2. cryptospaces
  3. cryptospecies
  4. cryptosphere
  5. cryptospora
  6. cryptospore
  7. cryptospores
  8. cryptosporidia
  9. cryptosporidial
  10. cryptosporidian
  11. cryptosporidiosis

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