1802 Monthly Rev. 38 App. 522 (heading) Analysis of the diaspore.

1868 H. B. Jones & H. Watts Fownes's Man. Elem. Chem. (ed. 10) 377 The monohydrate is found native, as diaspore.

1927 F. A. Burt Soil Mineral. ii. 25 The hydrous oxide, diaspore, and the hydroxide, gibbsite, are formed by extreme weathering which results in the desilication of the metal.

1999 I. Kostov & R. I. Kostov Crystal Habits Minerals iii. 35 Triplets are considered typical of minerals in the mmm class of symmetry, exemplified by..marcasite, chrysoberyl, diaspore, columbite, [etc.].

2004 W. D. Nesse Introd. Optical Mineral. (ed. 3) xvi. 312/1 Diaspore is a major constituent of bauxite, some laterites, and aluminous clays.

1944 S. A. Cain Found. Plant Geogr. xii. 155 The most widely accepted term is diaspore, which is defined as any one of the complexes (spore, seed, flower, inflorescence, etc.) separable from the mother plant and assuring the dissemination of the structures (spores or seeds) responsible for the next generation.

1977 Mycotaxon 6 208 This characterizing form that is involved in producing meiotic diaspores may be termed the teleomorph.

2006 Science 11 Aug. 787/3 For every passively dispersed diaspore there must be some vector, hence some mechanism, that takes it from one place to another.