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carpospore

NOUN
  1. a nonmotile spore of red algae

How To Use carpospore In A Sentence

  • These different responses between tetraspores and carpospores, suggest a different ecophysiological response with regard to survival and interspecific competition in nature of the gametophyte vs sporophyte.
  • carpospores" or possibly chlamydospores similar to the endospores of yeast. [v. 03 p. 0157] The former also looks on the ordinary disjointing bacterial cell as an oidium, and it must be admitted that since Brefeld's discovery of the frequency of minute oidia and chlamydospores among the fungi, the probability that some so-called bacteria -- and this applies especially to the branching forms accepted by some bacteriologists -- are merely reduced fungi is increased. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
  • From subsequent examination of the shells, he concluded that tetraspore-bearing plants of Polysiphonia violacea had developed from carpospores and sexual plants from tetraspores of Griffithsia bornetiana and Dasya elegans.
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