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spor-

  1. variant of sporo- before a vowel.

    sporangium.



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Example Sentences

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Hatayspor manager Volkan Demirel told Turkish sport website Spor Arena external-link there was "no news yet" on either Atsu or sporting director Taner Savut, who was reported missing on Monday along with the player.

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Sağlık için spor yapmak çok çok önemli.

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Ben de haftada üç gün spor yapmaya gayret ediyorum.

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Spor, an aspiring chef, stepped up to become the man of the family for his mom and three siblings after he lost his dad in January, Fox 29 reported.

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A new bike was gifted to Charly Spor, 17, on Thursday after Brian Himes, the owner of Italian Style Pizza & Pasta in Folcroft, Pa., and members of the community raised more than $200 in five days.

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When To Use

does spor- mean?

Spor- is a combining form used like a prefix meaning “spore.” Spore can have a variety of meanings, but in biology, it is used to refer to small organisms such as seeds or germ cells.Spor- ultimately comes from the Greek ǰá, meaning “sowing” or “seed.” Sporadic, meaning "occasional," comes from the related Greek ǰ徱ó. Find out what sporadic has to do with seeds at our entry. are variants of spor-?Spor- is a variant of sporo-, which loses its -o- when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels. When combined with words or word elements of Latin origin, spor- becomes spori-, as in sporiferous. When used at the end of a word, as a suffix, spor- becomes -spore, as in teliospore. A related adjectival form is -sporous, which means “having spores” or, literally, “full of spores.”Want to know more? Read our Words That Use articles for spori-, sporo-, -spore and -sporous.

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