Oospore
Oospore noun - A thick-walled sexual spore that develops from a fertilized oosphere in some algae and fungi.
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Spore
Spore noun - A small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion.
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