Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun endospore

1 sense of endospore

Sense 1
endospore -- (a small asexual spore that develops inside the cell of some bacteria and algae)
       => spore -- (a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion; "a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes")