teleutospore
English edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek τελευτή (teleutḗ, “end”) + σπορά (sporá, “seed”).
Noun edit
teleutospore (plural teleutospores)
- (botany) The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer.
Related terms edit
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “teleutospore”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)