sporiferous

[ spuh-rif-er-uhs ]

adjective

1. bearing spores.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sporiferous¹

First recorded in 1830–40; spor- + -i- + -ferous

Example Sentences

The tubes are little cylinders, long or short, pressed one against another, forming by their union a layer on the under surface of the cap, and the sporiferous membrane or hymenium lines their inner walls.

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The sporiferous fungi are arranged into four families, viz: Hymenomycetes, in which the hymenium is free, mostly naked, or soon exposed.

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In the original classification of Fries two of the primary divisions of the sporiferous Fungi were termed, respectively, Coniomycetes and Hyphomycetes.

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Plasmodium in rotten wood, white or nearly transparent; when fruiting, forming on the substratum mould-like patches composed of the minute sporiferous pillars, generally in clusters of three or more together; spores white, ovoid, or ellipsoidal, smooth, 10–12 � 6 �.

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The middle layer sporiferous with calcigerous capillitium.

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