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-sporous

 
a combining form meaning “having spores” of the kind specified by the initial element: helicosporous.
Origin:
< Gk -sporos; see spore, -ous
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-sporous  
suff.   Having a specified number or kind of spores: heterosporous.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2006 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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