"spores" in the noun sense
1. 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"
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