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Noun
sporid (plural sporids)
- (chiefly botany) A sporidium.
1884, John W. Glenn, Report of the experimental and other work done at the School of Agriculture, Horticulture and Botany, University of Tennessee during the Years 1883 and 1884, page 63:Further North, where it [sc. rust] first attacks the barberry its primary form and color is a yellow cup-cell, which matures and sends out spores which attack the wheat by penetrating into its tissue, as the sporid did the brier, and produce the red, globular cell.
1886, Charles E. Bessey, The Essentials of Botany, page 172:357. […] Somewhat later in the season the same parasitic filaments which have been producing Red-rust spores begin to produce lines or spots of dark-colored, thick-walled, two-celled bodies (teleutospores), the so-called spores of the Black-rust […] Being thick-walled, they endure the winter without injury, and when spring comes […] they germinate on the rotting straw and produce several minute spores, called sporids. This is the fourth and last stage of the rust. The sporids fall upon Barberry-leaves and germinate […] giving rise to cluster-cups again.
1875, E. Klein, “Research on the Smallpox of Sheep”, in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, volume 165, page 220:As the sporids originating from Micrococcus of sheep-pox develop, according to Hallier, in the air to a Cladosporium […]