Bot. [mod.L., dim. of next.] A sporule.
1832. Lindley, Introd. Bot., 209. Sporidiola are sporules.
1836. Berkeley, in Smiths Eng. Flora, V. II. 276. The sporidia oblong-elliptic, containing three or four round sporidiola.
1845. Encycl. Metrop., XXV. 836/1. Sporidia nearly globose, unequal, filled with sporidiola.