SPORES

"SPORES" is a plural of: spore.

Date "SPORES" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1844. (references)

Aerospace

Health

Medicine

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Crosswords: SPORES

I collect spores, molds and fungus. (Ghostbusters; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.)

Plant spores! That's what causing all the trouble! (The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure; writing credit: George Kashdan)

Killer Spores (1977)

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Books

• Key to Spores of the Genera of North Temperate Forests With Special Reference to Animal Mycophagy (reference)

• Key to the Quaternary Pollen and Spores of the Great Lakes Region (reference)

• Killer Spores (reference)

• Morphology, Development and Systematic Relevance of Pollen and Spores (Plant Systematics and Evaluation. Supplementum, No 5) (reference)

• Palynology: Spores and Pollen, Part 1 (reference)

  (more book examples)

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Asexual spores (conidia): tuberculate macroconidia of Histoplasma capsulatum. Microconidia are also present. Credit: CDC.

Bacillus brevis showing spores. Gram stain. Credit: CDC.

Transmission electron micrograph showing developing forms of Encephalitozoon intestinalis inside a parasitophorous vacuole (red arrows) with mature spores (black arrows). microsporidiosis, parasite. Credit: CDC.

Confocal micrographic image of Bacillus anthracis; Cell walls appear green, while the spores appear red. Credit: CDC.

These spores can live for many years enabling the bacteria to survive in a dormant state. Credit: CDC.

Bacillus circulans showing spores. Gram stain. Credit: CDC.

Photomicrograph of Bacillus anthracis from an agar culture demonstrating spores; Fuchsin-methylene blue spore stain. Anthrax. Credit: CDC.

Spores released from the fan-shaped basidiocarp of this inch-wide Crinipellis perniciosa mushroom can infect cacao trees and drastically reduce yields of the beans from which cocoa and chocolate products are made. Photo Scott Bauer. Credit: USDA ARS News.

Plant pathologist Robert Lumsden counts the fanlike basidiocarps (right) produced by Crinipellis perniciosa mushrooms growing on dry witches'-broom incubated in a humid chamber. He will collect fungal spores for laboratory and greenhouse studies to identify prospective biocontrol agents. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

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Health

Breathing the spores causes infection. (references)

Spores become airborne when contaminated soil is disturbed. (references)

Wound botulism occurs when C. botulinum spores germinate within wounds. (references)

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Danish

sporer (detecting equipment, detector equipment), spore (calcar, inking, spore, spur, stake). (various references)

Dutch

spore (spore), spora. (various references)

Finnish

itiö (spore). (various references)

French

spores, spore (spore). (various references)

German

Sporen. (various references)

Greek 

σπόρια. (various references)

Italian

spore, spora (spore). (various references)

Pig Latin

oresspay

Portuguese

esporos. (various references)

Spanish

esporas. (various references)

Swedish

sporer. (various references)

Derivations

Words ending with "SPORES": aeciospores, arthrospores, ascospores, basidiospores, blastospores, carpospores, chlamydospores, diaspores, endospores, exospores, megaspores, microspores, oospores, teleutospores, teliospores, tetraspores, urediniospores, urediospores, uredospores, zoospores, zygospores. (additional references)

Misspellings

"SPORES" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: esporles, psora, sapore, smores, splore, spooges, spored, spurless, syores. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: posers, proses.

-1 letter: pesos, pores, poser, poses, posse, press, prose, pross, repos, ropes, roses, sores, spore.

-2 letters: epos, eros, opes, ores, oses, peso, pore, pose, pros, repo, reps, roes, rope, rose, sers, sops, sore.

-3 letters: ers, ess, oes, ope, ops, ore, ors, ose, per, pes, pro, rep, res, roe, ser, sop, sos.

-4 letters: er, es, oe, op.

+1 letter: corpses, oppress, ospreys, persons, plessor, poisers, poseurs, posters, pressor, prestos, process, profess, prosers, prosses, prossie, prowess, reposes, respots, slopers, soapers, splores, stopers.

+2 letters: apposers, aspersor, compress, corpuses, cropless, deposers, disposer, dropsies, espartos, espouser, espresso, exposers, expresso, gossiper, hotpress, imposers, oosperms, oospores, opposers, outpress, overpass, oversups, passover, personas, pharoses, plessors, poorness, portless, portress, posterns, postures, preshows, presoaks, presorts, pressors, prioress, progress, promises, proposes, prosects, prosiest, prospers, prossies, prosties, protases, protests, purposes, reposals, reposers, reposits, repousse, responds, responsa, response, ripostes, ropiness, saprobes, scoopers, seaports, semipros, shoppers, snoopers, spermous, spoilers, spongers, spoofers, sporters, sporules, spotters, spouters, stompers, stoopers, stoppers, strophes, supposer, supremos, swoopers, triposes, uprouses.