- Isosporous
- Isosporous I*sos"po*rous, a. [Iso- + Gr. spo`ros fruit.] (Biol.) Producing but one kind of spore, as the ferns. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Isosporous
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homosporous — [hō mäs′pə rəs, hō΄mō spôr′əs] adj. Bot. producing only one kind of spore; isosporous … English World dictionary
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