SPORULATION

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Meaning:

Asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores

Synonyms:

monogenesis; sporulation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("sporulation" is a kind of...):

agamogenesis; asexual reproduction (reproduction without the fusion of gametes)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sporulation"):

heterospory (the development of both microspores and megaspores)

homospory (the development of a single kind of asexual spores)

Derivation:

sporulate (produce spores)