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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a body that resembles a spore but is not an endospore; produced by some bacteria;

2. one of a string of thick walled vegetative resting cells formed by some algae and fungi;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Arthrospore \Ar"thro*spore\, n. [Gr. ? joint + E. spore.] (Bacteriol.) 1. A bacterial resting cell, -- formerly considered a spore, but now known to occur even in endosporous bacteria. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] 2. one of the small conidia occurring arranged in chains in certain fungi. Called also oidium. [PJC] -- Ar`thro*spor"ic, Ar*thros"po*rous, a. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

arthrospore n 1: a body that resembles a spore but is not an endospore; produced by some bacteria 2: one of a string of thick walled vegetative resting cells formed by some algae and fungi