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CARPOSPORE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A nonmotile spore of red algae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("carpospore" is a kind of...):
spore (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)
Holonyms ("carpospore" is a part of...):
red algae (marine algae in which the chlorophyll is masked by a red or purplish pigment; source of agar and carrageenan)
Derivation:
carposporic (relating to or resembling a carpospore)
carposporous (having carpospores)
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