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   Swarmspore , n.
   (Bot.) One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algae and fungi; a zoospore.
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   (Zool.) One of the minute flagellate germs produced by the sporulation of a protozoan; -- called also zoospore.
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   Zoospore , n. [Zoo- + spore.]
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   (Bot.) 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.
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   (Zool.) See Swarmspore.
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