carpospore

English

Etymology

carpo- +‎ -spore

Noun

carpospore (plural carpospores)

1. A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red algae.

Related terms

• carposporangium
• carposporic

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “carpospore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)