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cryptospore

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
cryp-tospore
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A sporelike organic-walled microfossil (palynomorph) that most typically occurs in tightly adherent tetrads or dyads, which is considered to be derived from early land plants (embryophyte) or their immediate algal (streptophyte) ancestors.

Inflected Forms

cryptospores (plural)

Questions

What does cryptospore mean?
A sporelike organic-walled microfossil (palynomorph) that most typically occurs in tightly adherent tetrads or dyads, which is considered to be derived from early land plants (embryophyte) or their immediate algal (streptophyte) ancestors.

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