Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A teliospore.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, in the Uredineæ, a thick-walled spore or pseudospore formed by abscission on a branch of the mycelium (sterigma), and on germination producing a promycelium.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer. See
Illust. ofuredospore .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The thick-
celled winter orresting spore of therusts (order Uredinales ), produced in latesummer .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Greek teleutē, termination (from telos, end; see kwel- in Indo-European roots) + spore.]
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Ancient Greek completion + English spore.
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