sporulate

Valid in Scrabble

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11
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14
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9

Definition of sporulate

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (intransitive)To produce spores.
    “She was also their science teacher and had taught them about slime molds in biology class, about how the singular organisms came together to form a multicellular body in order to sporulate and reproduce, before breaking apart again.”
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verb

  1. (intransitive)To produce spores.
    “She was also their science teacher and had taught them about slime molds in biology class, about how the singular organisms came together to form a multicellular body in order to sporulate and reproduce, before breaking apart again.”
  2. (transitive)To convert into spores.
    “A part of the protoplasm is not sporulated but forms a capillitium.”

adj

  1. (not-comparable)That produces spores

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Etymology

From sporule + -ate (verb-forming suffix).

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