n :  a primitive usu. unicellular often environmentally resistant dormant or reproductive body produced by plants and some microorganisms and capable of developing either directly or after fusion with another spore into a new individual which is in some cases unlike the parent
, vi, spored  spor*ing  :  to produce or reproduce by spores .
 
   
 
Similar sounding terms:  so·por   spray  sprue  spur 
 
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