Definition of "ascospore" []

• A sexually produced fungal spore formed within an ascus. (noun)

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• "Second, the wind plays a large part in local ascospore dissemination."
• "First, the prolific ascospore stage is very important in causing the spread of the blight, the spores at this stage being forcibly ejected from the pustules and borne through the air for some distance."
• "There is a winter spore stage, or technically, the ascospore stage, which comes, as"