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- English Word Sporocyst Definition Any protozoan when it becomes encysted produces germs by sporulation.
- English Word Sporogenesis Definition reproduction by spores.
- English Word Sporogony Definition The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.
- English Word Sporophore Definition A placenta.
- English Word Sporophore Definition That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore.
- English Word Sporophoric Definition Having the nature of a sporophore.
- English Word Sporosac Definition A hydrozoan reproductive zooid or gonophore which does not become medusoid in form or structure. See Illust. under Athecata.
- English Word Sporosac Definition An early or simple larval stage of trematode worms and some other invertebrates, which is capable or reproducing other germs by asexual generation; a nurse; a redia.
- English Word Sporozoa Definition An extensive division of parasitic Protozoa, which increase by sporulation. It includes the Gregarinida.
- English Word Sporozoid Definition Same as Zoospore.
- English Word Sporran Definition A large purse or pouch made of skin with the hair or fur on, worn in front of the kilt by Highlanders when in full dress.
- English Word Sport Definition That which diverts, and makes mirth; pastime; amusement.
- English Word Sport Definition Mock; mockery; contemptuous mirth; derision.
- English Word Sport Definition That with which one plays, or which is driven about in play; a toy; a plaything; an object of mockery.
- English Word Sport Definition Play; idle jingle.
- English Word Sport Definition Diversion of the field, as fowling, hunting, fishing, racing, games, and the like, esp. when money is staked.
- English Word Sport Definition A plant or an animal, or part of a plant or animal, which has some peculiarity not usually seen in the species; an abnormal variety or growth. See Sporting plant, under Sporting.
- English Word Sport Definition A sportsman; a gambler.
- English Word Sport Definition To play; to frolic; to wanton.
- English Word Sport Definition To practice the diversions of the field or the turf; to be given to betting, as upon races.
- English Word Sport Definition To trifle.
- English Word Sport Definition To assume suddenly a new and different character from the rest of the plant or from the type of the species; -- said of a bud, shoot, plant, or animal. See Sport, n., 6.
- English Word Sport Definition To divert; to amuse; to make merry; -- used with the reciprocal pronoun.
- English Word Sport Definition To represent by any knd of play.
- English Word Sport Definition To exhibit, or bring out, in public; to use or wear; as, to sport a new equipage.
- English Word Sport Definition To give utterance to in a sportive manner; to throw out in an easy and copious manner; -- with off; as, to sport off epigrams.
- English Word Sportability Definition Sportiveness.
- English Word Sportal Definition Of or pertaining to sports; used in sports.
- English Word Sported Definition of Sport
- English Word Sporter Definition One who sports; a sportsman.