monosporen.adj.
/ˈmɒnə(ʊ)spɔː/, U.S. /ˈmɑnəˌspɔr/ Botany.
A. n.
A single spore; esp. the non-motile asexual spore produced by a monosporangium, characteristic of some red algae.
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monospore1876
monosporangium1892
1876 E. R. Lankester tr. E. Haeckel Hist. Creation I. viii. 194 After this germ-cell, or monospore (or, briefly, spore), has left the parental individual.
1892 Jrnl. Quekett Microsc. Club July 24 Their neutral organs are undivided, i.e. they are monospores.
1987 R. L. Fletcher Seaweeds Brit. Isles III. i. 36 For the great majority of algae the spores..are motile. Exceptions include the non-motile monospores (produced in monosporangia) in algae such as Acinetospora and Tilopteris.
2000 Phycologia 39 75 Monosporangia are common in the culture isolate [of the alga], and monospores germinate readily.
B. adj.
Of or derived from a single spore; = monosporous adj. 2.
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the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > spore or sporule > [adjective] > of or having other types of spore
archesporial1882
monosporiferous1892
monospore1931
monosporous1947
microsporogenetic1973
1931 Trans. Brit. Mycol. Soc. 16 180 (caption) Coverslip culture for monospore inoculations.
1949 H. W. Florey et al. Antibiotics VIII. xvi. 678 Monospore isolations..have been made by the thousand.
1967 M. E. Hale Biol. Lichens iii. 48 There are extremely few studies of mycobionts from monospore cultures.
1993 Mycol. Res. 97 139/1 Monospore culture on medium B did not form sectors, and formation on them of both kinds of sclerotia was delayed relative to polyspore cultures.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1876