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sporulates

sporulates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sporulate.

Meaning of sporulate

Verb

sporulate (third-person singular simple present sporulates, present participle sporulating, simple past and past participle sporulated)

  1. (intransitive) To produce spores.
    • She was also their science teacher and had taught them about slime molds in biology class, about how the singular organisms came together to form a multicellular body in order to sporulate and reproduce, before breaking apart again.2021, Ruth Ozeki, The Book of Form and Emptiness, Canongate Books (2022), pages 95–96
  2. (transitive) To convert into spores.
    • A part of the protoplasm is not sporulated but forms a capillitium.1885, Edwin Ray Lankester, Encyclopædia Britannica, volume vol. XIX. 854/1

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Questions about sporulates

What is sporulates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Sporulates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of sporulate.

Words near sporulates in the dictionary

  1. sporula
  2. sporulae
  3. sporular
  4. sporulate
  5. sporulated
  6. sporulates
  7. sporulating
  8. sporulation
  9. sporulations
  10. sporulative
  11. sporulator

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