Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tetraspore
1 sense of tetraspore
Sense 1
tetraspore -- (one of the four asexual spores produced within a sporangium)
=> 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")