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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Arthrospore

· Ar·thro·spore · IPA
01 n. A bacterial resting cell, -- formerly considered a spore, but now known to occur even in endosporous bacteria.
  1. 1.
    A bacterial resting cell, -- formerly considered a spore, but now known to occur even in endosporous bacteria.(Bacteriol.)
  2. 2.
    one of the small conidia occurring arranged in chains in certain fungi. Called also oidium. Also: oidium