a primitive hardy reproductive body, usu with a single cell, produced by plants, algae, fungi, protozoans (primitive single-celled animals; see protozoan), bacteria, etc and capable of development into a new individual either on its own or after fusion with another spore
spored adj
sporiferous /spawʹrifərəs, spə-/ adj
[scientific Latin spora seed, spore, from Greek spora act of sowing, seed, from speirein to sow]