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sporidium

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
sporid-i-um
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A secondary spore borne on a promycelium, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi.

noun

An ascospore.

noun

Any spore.

Etymology

From New Latin sporidium, from Ancient Greek σπορά (sporá, “seed”) + -idium.

Origin

Word Breakdown

  • Root: sporidium, σπορά

Subject

Wiktionary places this term in Medicine.

Inflected Forms

sporidia (plural)

Derived Forms

microsporidium sarcosporidium

Frequently Paired Words

sporidiferous

Questions

What does sporidium mean?
A secondary spore borne on a promycelium, or a filament produced from a spore, in certain kinds of minute fungi.
Where does sporidium come from?
It is traced to Ancient Greek.

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