Cryptospore
Definition & Meaning
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Cryptospore is a noun meaning A sporelike organic-walled microfossil (palynomorph) that most typically occurs in tightly adherent tetrads or dyads, which is considered to be derived from early land plants (embryophyte) or their immediate algal (streptophyte) ancestors.
Meaning
A sporelike organic-walled microfossil (palynomorph) that most typically occurs in tightly adherent tetrads or dyads, which is considered to be derived from early land plants (embryophyte) or their immediate algal (streptophyte) ancestors.
Word Forms
- cryptospores
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sporomorph, statospore, protospore, archeospore, blastospore, archespore.
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