-sporous


  1. a combining form meaning “having spores” of the kind specified by the initial element: helicosporous.

Origin of -sporous

1
<Greek -sporos;see spore, -ous

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British Dictionary definitions for -sporous

-sporous

adj combining form
  1. (in botany) having a specified type or number of spores: homosporous

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