The biologist looked at a spore under the microscope.
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Spore
//spɔː(ɹ)//
Synonyms for "spore" (64 found)
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Closest matches (13)
Strong matches (19)
Related words (32)
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1 entriesRelated terms
5 entriesderived
94 entriesShowing 16 of 94 words.
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1 entriesis a
2 entriesrelated to
17 entriesShowing 16 of 17 words.
Translations
58 translations across 39 languages.
Afrikaans
1 entries- spoor noun (reproductive particle)
Armenian
2 entries- բեղմնիկ noun (reproductive particle)
- սպոր noun (reproductive particle)
Bulgarian
1 entries- спо́ра noun (reproductive particle)
Catalan
2 entries- espora noun (reproductive particle)
- espora noun (resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist)
Cherokee
1 entries- ᎠᏴᎩᏍᏗ noun (reproductive particle)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 孢子 noun (reproductive particle)
Czech
3 entries- spora noun (reproductive particle)
- spora noun (resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist)
- výtrus noun (reproductive particle)
Dutch
1 entries- spoor noun (reproductive particle)
Esperanto
1 entries- sporo noun (reproductive particle)
Estonian
2 entries- eos noun (reproductive particle)
- spoor noun (reproductive particle)
Finnish
2 entries- itiö noun (reproductive particle)
- itiö noun (resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist)
French
1 entries- spore noun (reproductive particle)
German
1 entries- Spore noun (reproductive particle)
Greek
1 entries- σπόριο noun (reproductive particle)
Hebrew
1 entries- נבג noun (reproductive particle)
Hindi
1 entries- बीजाणु noun (reproductive particle)
Hungarian
2 entries- spóra noun (reproductive particle)
- spóra noun (resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist)
Icelandic
1 entries- gró noun (reproductive particle)
Ido
1 entries- sporo noun (reproductive particle)
Indonesian
1 entries- spora noun (reproductive particle)
Irish
1 entries- spór noun (reproductive particle)
Italian
2 entries- spora noun (reproductive particle)
- spora noun (resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist)
Japanese
1 entries- 胞子 noun (reproductive particle)
Māori
2 entries- pata noun (reproductive particle)
- pua atua noun (reproductive particle)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- spore noun (reproductive particle)
Norwegian Nynorsk
1 entries- spore noun (reproductive particle)
Persian
2 entries- اسپور noun (reproductive particle)
- هاگ noun (reproductive particle)
Polish
4 entries- przetrwalnik noun (resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist)
- spora noun (reproductive particle)
- spora noun (resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist)
- zarodnik noun (reproductive particle)
Portuguese
1 entries- esporo noun (reproductive particle)
Romanian
2 entries- spor noun (reproductive particle)
- spori noun (reproductive particle)
Russian
1 entries- спо́ра noun (reproductive particle)
Slovene
2 entries- spora noun (reproductive particle)
- tros noun (reproductive particle)
Spanish
4 entries- espora noun (reproductive particle)
- espora noun (resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist)
- esporo noun (reproductive particle)
- esporo noun (resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist)
Swahili
1 entries- spora noun (reproductive particle)
Swedish
1 entries- spor noun (reproductive particle)
Thai
1 entries- สปอร์ noun (reproductive particle)
Turkish
1 entries- spor noun (resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist)
Ukrainian
2 entries- спо́ра noun (reproductive particle)
- спо́ра noun (resistant particle produced by bacterium or protist)
Vietnamese
1 entries- bào tử noun (reproductive particle)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
Thresher maws are subterranean carnivores that spend their entire lives eating or searching for something to eat. Threshers reproduce via spores that lie dormant for millennia, yet are robust enough to survive prolonged periods in deep space and atmospheric re-entry. As a result, thresher spores appear on many worlds, spread by previous generations of space travelers.
Source: wiktionary
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