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chlamydospore|ˈklæmɪdəʊspɔə(r)|
[f. Gr. χλαµυδ-, χλαµύς cloak + spore.]
a. Bot. A thick-walled resting spore produced by various fungi.
b. Zool. A spore with protective chitinous covering, as distinguished from gymnospore.
1884Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. (ed. 4) i. 160 Chlamydospores, when fully formed, are still enclosed within their parent-cells. 1885Encycl. Brit. XIX. 837/1 Each spore..has its own protective envelope... The former condition is distinguished as a ‘chlamydospore’. 1910G. N. Calkins Protozoöl. 183 The covered spores or chlamydospores, of the sexual generation. 1922Nature CIX. 699/2 Relations between the chlamydospores and the mycelian loops. 1952New Biol. XIII. 103 The chlamydospore or gemma (plural gemmae). Such spores are produced in hyphae by the secretion of a thick wall around a portion of protoplasm. |