Dictionary entry

Swarmspore

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Swarm″spore′ (?), n. 1. (Bot.) One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algæ and fungi; a zoöspore.

2. (Zoöl.) One of the minute flagellate germs produced by the sporulation of a protozoan; — called also zoöspore.