spore

1. 1.

   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

   “a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes”

   Broaderagamete

   Narrowerbasidiosporeendosporecarposporechlamydosporeconidiumoosporeresting sporetetrasporezoosporefern seed

Other forms of spore

plural

spores·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about spore

What does spore mean?

spore means "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".

How many syllables are in spore?

spore has 1 syllable: spore. In IPA it is /ˈspɔɹ/.

Is spore a common word?

spore is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.