Carpospore

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Carpospore \Car"po*spore\, n. [Gr. karpo`s + -spore.] (Bot.)
     A kind of spore formed in the conceptacles of red alg[ae]. --
     {Car`po*spor"ic}, a.
     [1913 Webster] carposporic

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  carpospore
       n : a nonmotile spore of red algae