sporid

English

Noun

sporid (plural sporids)

1. (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 […]