Definition of "sporulated" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of sporulate. (verb)

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• "They sporulated, the spores attract insects, the insects laid eggs, eggs became larvae."
• "The strain is in the sporulated form, said the company, and this enhances survival and proliferation in the gastrointestinal environment unlike vegetative cells that may be destroyed under these conditions."
• "The resulting diploid heterozygotes were then sporulated and dissected, to segregate out any secondary mutations."