Reproductive cells of fungi and mushrooms, bacteria and cryptogamic plants, resembling microscopical ‘ seeds’ produced on or in simple reproductive organs, or produced on specialised parts of the mycelium (conidia, conidio- or chlamydospores) and in sacs or asci (ascospores) or on basidia (basidiospores), which can produce hyphae and a mycelium when they germinate.

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Alternative form for spore : spores.