Spore

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The botanical equivalent to the zoological term cyst. The term spore, or its use as a suffix, is also employed to denote a multiplicative dispersal stage in which numerous cells are produced to distribute the organism, as in the terms aplanospore, planospore, dinospore and gymnospore.