resting spore

English

Noun

resting spore (plural resting spores)

1. A spore, in certain orders of algae, which remains quiescent, retaining its vitality, for long periods of time.
   • 1893, Charles Edwin Bessey, The essentials of botany:

     Resting spores appear never to form a mycelium […]

Anagrams

• progenitress