teliosporic

Variant of teliospore

teliospore definition

te·lio·spore (tē′lē ō spôr′, tel′ē ō-)

noun

a thick-walled resting spore that develops in late summer during the telial stage of the rust fungi and germinates the next spring

Etymology: < telium + spore

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Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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