Sporulate
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Sporulate is a verb meaning (biology, intransitive) To produce spores.
Meaning
(biology, intransitive) To produce spores.
More Meanings
- (transitive) To convert into spores.
- (botany) That produces spores
Example Sentences
A part of the protoplasm is not sporulated but forms a capillitium.
She was also their science teacher and had taught them about slime molds in biology class, about how the singular organisms came together to form a multicellular body in order to sporulate and reproduce, before breaking apart again.
Word Forms
- sporulates
- sporulating
- sporulated
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include sporolate, spore, endosporulate, auxosporulate, abject, pullulate.
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