resting cell (resting sel)

spore. resting-owing (res'ting-ō"ing), a. [ Arise, O Lord God, into thy resting place, thou and the ark of thy strength. 2 Chron. vi. 41. It was from Istrian soil that the mighty stone was brought which once covered the resting - place of Theodoric. E. A. Freeman , Venice, p. 100. 2. In building, a half or quarter-pace in a stair case. n. resting-sporangium (res'ting-spo-ran"ji-um), A term applied by Pringsheim to certain dormant gonidia of Saprolegnia and related fungi which eventually produce swarm-spores. resting-spore (resʼting-spor), n. A spore which can germinate only after a period of dormancy. A majority of the spores of algæ and fungi are of this nature, and they are more largely of sexual production. Many of the same plants produce spores capable of immediate germination. Also resting -cell.