[tee-lee-uh-spawr, -spohr, tel-ee-] 
| a spore of certain rust fungi, which carries the fungus through the winter and which, on germination, produces the promycelium. |
| te·leu·to·spore (tə-lōō'tə-spôr', -spōr') n. See teliospore. [Greek teleutē, termination (from telos, end; see kwel-1 in Indo-European roots) + spore.] te·leu'to·spor'ic (-spôr'ĭk, -spŏr'ĭk) adj. |
| te·li·o·spore (tē'lē-ə-spôr', -spōr') n. A thick-walled, usually blackish resting spore of some rusts and smuts, from which the basidium arises. Also called teleutospore. [teli(um) + spore.] te'li·o·spor'ic (-spôr'ĭk, -spŏr'-) adj. |
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