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epispore|ˈɛpɪspɔə(r)|
[f. epi- + spore. In mod.L. episporium.]
1. The outer membrane or covering on the spore of a lichen or fern.
1835Lindley Introd. Bot. (1848) II. 128 The membrane by which it [the spore] is covered..soon distends into a transparent Epispore. 1874Cooke Fungi 60 This rosy colour..accumulating exclusively upon the epispore.
2. Zool. In Sporozoa (see quot.).
1903E. R. Lankester Zool. i. ii. 189 The spore-envelope or sporocyst [in Gregarines] consists of two layers, an outer clear and delicate epispore, and an inner refringent and tough endospore. |