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sporeling

[spawr-ling, spohr-]

noun

Botany, Mycology. the young individual developed from a spore.

Origin:
1905–10; spore + -ling¹, as in seedling

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organism that has a nucleus containing genetic material

ovules in flowering plants which are enclosed during pollination

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