zoospore
Noun
Meaning
A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoospores are produced by many green, and by some olive-brown, algae. In certain species they are divided into the larger macrozoospores and the smaller microzoospores. Called also sporozoid, and swarmspore.
See Swarmspore.
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
swarm spore
bacillus
bacteria
germ
spore
microorganism
microbe
amoeba
virus
endospore
epiphytic
dyad
basidiospore
rotifer
micrococcus
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