a. Bot. [f. mod.L. spor-a SPORE + -(I)FEROUS.] Bearing spores. Also Sporification, the process of forming spores. Sporigenous a., producing spores. Sporigerous a., bearing spores.

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1836.  Berkeley, in Smith’s Eng. Flora, V. II. 341. Quaternate … *sporiferous branchlets. Ibid. The sporiferous state.

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1857.  Henfrey, Bot., 158. The fructification or sporiferous apparatus of the Ferns is produced upon the leaves.

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1882.  Vines, trans. Sachs’ Bot., 316. The distribution of the bands of sporiferous filaments in the colourless sterile tissue.

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1887.  Challenger Rep., XVIII. I. p. cxxxvii. *Sporification … has been hitherto observed only in a very small number of genera.

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1867.  J. Hogg, Microsc., II. i. 303. Bringing the whole into contact with *sporigenous cells.

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1866.  Treas. Bot., 100/1. The distinction from *sporigerous fungi is not therefore as definite as might be wished.

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1897.  Allbutt’s Syst. Med., II. 308. Germs or sporules … which … rapidly develope into sporigerous bacilli.

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