Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Microspore

Microspore (mī"kro*spōr) , noun

[Micro- + spore.]

(Botany) One of the exceedingly minute spores found in certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Compare Macrospore.