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cryptospores

cryptospores is the plural of cryptospore.

Meaning of cryptospore

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.

Questions about cryptospores

What is cryptospores the plural of?
Cryptospores is the plural of cryptospore.

Words near cryptospores in the dictionary

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

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