Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, in Uredineæ, the peculiar spore produced during the uredoform stage of the fungus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The thin-walled summer spore which is produced during the so-called Uredo stage of certain rusts. See (in the Supplement)
uredinales ,heterœcious , etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The thin-walled
summer spore which is produced during the so-called Uredo stage of certainrusts .
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These æcidium spores germinate only on a grass stem or leaf, and a distinct generation is produced, having a particular kind of spore called an _uredospore_.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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The uredospore forms fresh generations of the same kind until the close of the summer, when the third generation with another kind of spore, called a _teleutospore_, is produced.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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_Uredospores_, from their analogies with the uredospore of the rust of wheat; the second kind of spore is smooth, and is called the
Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888 Various
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