combining form of Gr. σπορά SPORE, employed in a considerable number of recent scientific terms relating to the spores of plants or elementary forms of animal life, as Sporoblast, -cyte, -derm, -duct, -genous a., -gone, -gonic a., -gonium, -gony, -phorous a., -phyll, -phyllary a., -phyte, -phytic a., -zoal a., -zoan, -zoic a., -zoid, -zoite, -zoon.
1888. Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 860. The protoplasm … segments … into a number of nucleated *sporoblasts. Ibid. The sporoblast assumes by degrees its definitive shape, elliptical and pointed at the ends.
1891. Cent. Dict., *Sporocyte.
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 945. The sporocytes, when mature, divide into spores.
1866. Treas. Bot., 1088/2. *Sporoderm, the skin of a spore.
1885. Encycl. Brit., XIX. 854/1. Sometimes the cyst is complicated by the formation of *sporoducts.
1888. Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 861. The spores are discharged from the cyst by special tubular sporoducts.
1888. Encycl. Brit., XXIV. 126/1. The carpogonium or *sporogenous portion.
1897. Nature, LVII. 44/2. Sporogenous tissue, and its conversion into assimilatory tissue. Ibid. (1881), XXIV. 74. This so-called fruit is in reality a distinct plantlet, called a *‘sporogone,’ which by … simple multiplication gives birth to the spores.
1902. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 10), XXXII. 816/1. There exists a whole group of Coccidiida,… of which only the *sporogonic cycle is known.
1875. Bennett & Dyer, trans. Sachs’ Bot., 295. The asexual generation or *sporogonium is only at first formed in the calyptra [of mosses].
1882. Vines, trans. Sachs’ Bot., 226. The oosphere … finally developes into a capsule supported on a long stalk, the Sporogonium, in the interior of which are produced numbers of spores.
1888. Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 749. *‘Sporogony,’ or development from a non-sexual spore, occurs in a few instances.
1859. Mayne, Expos. Lex., 1195/2. Sporophorus,… bearing or containing seed: *sporophorous.
1879. Encycl. Brit., IX. 828/2. The sporophorous hyphæ are branches of the mycelium.
1888. Vines, in Encycl. Brit., XXIV. 129/2. The wall of the sporocarp is formed by a portion of the *sporophyll. Ibid. (1895), Textbk. Bot., 70. A leaf bearing one or more sporangia is termed a sporophyll.
1897. Nature, 11 Nov., 45/2. The transference of *sporophyllary organs to vegetative ones.
1886. Athenæum, 25 Dec., 866/3. These take the form of buds similar to the *sporophyte which produced them.
1895. Oliver, trans. Kerner’s Nat. Hist. Plants, II. 476. The fern-plant bears no sexual organs, and must be regarded as the asexual generation (or sporophyte).
1886. Athenæum, 25 Dec., 866/3. These … would be termed cases of *‘sporophytic budding.’
1899. Allbutt’s Syst. Med., VIII. 946. The transmission of the *sporozoal parasite … of Texas cattle fever.
1888. Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 862. There are three *Sporozoans included in this sub-class.
1894. Lancet, 3 Nov., 1025. The shuttle-shaped spores … so frequent in *sporozoic infection of animals.
1882. Ogilvie, *Sporozoid,… a moving spore furnished with cilia or vibratile processes.
1888. Rolleston & Jackson, Anim. Life, 861. The contents [of the sporocyst] are resolved into falciform bodies or *sporozoites.
1900. Brit. Med. Jrnl., 10 Feb., 301. The skin bitten by the proboscis through which the infected mosquito inoculates its sporozoites.
1885. Encycl. Brit., XIX. 855/2. An amœba-like organism,… either a *Sporozoon or referable to those parasitic spore-producing Proteomyxa.
