Tetraspore

2 definitions found

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

  Tetraspore \Tet"ra*spore\, n. [Tetra- + spore.] (Bot.)
     A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring
     in red seaweeds. -- {Tet`ra*spor"ic}, a.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  tetraspore
       n : one of the four asexual spores produced within a sporangium