Bot. [f. Gr. ἄκρο- (see ACRO-) + σπόρ-ος fruit: see SPORE.] A spore produced at the apex of a hypha or cellular filament forming the structural element of fungi; a basidiospore.
1870. H. Macmillan, Bible Teachings, vi. 127. No less than four kinds of fructification—spores, acrospores, zoospores, oospores—have been discovered on the same plant.
