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Asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores
Answer for the clue "Asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores ", 11 letters:
sporulation
Word definitions for sporulation in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The process of a bacterium becoming a spore
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores [syn: monogenesis ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sporulation \Spor`u*la"tion\ (sp[o^]r`[-u]*l[=a]"sh[u^]n), n. (Biol.) The act or process of forming spores; spore formation. See Illust. of Bacillus , (b) .
Usage examples of sporulation.
Donald Tremaine knew little about Sporeworld, other than that the reproductive ecology was geared to sporulation, with anywhere from a pair up to twelve or more contributors of the same species merging in a chaotic shuffling of what passed for genes before the spore was formed.
At last the moss was so glutted that it went into sporulation, puffing up cancerously and sending milky clouds of reproductive bodies spewing into the air.
As active bacilli or after sporulation on contact with air, the disease was literally designed to spread into the countryside.