Index of English words, starting with "sp"

(1) - Sporogony (n.) The growth or development of an animal or a zooid from a nonsexual germ.

(1) - Sporophore (n.) That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore.
(2) - Sporophore (n.) A placenta.

(1) - Sporophoric (a.) Having the nature of a sporophore.