MEANING
To form spores as part of a biological life cycle.
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Words that belong together
- sporulating fungus
- sporulate under suitable conditions
On the page
The fungus began to sporulate along the damp beam.
The culture sporulated after its environment changed.
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Word forms
- Base
- sporulate
- Past tense
- sporulated
- Past participle
- sporulated
- Present participle
- sporulating
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- sporulate
- Present continuous
- am/is/are sporulating
- Present perfect
- have/has sporulated
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been sporulating
- Past
- sporulated
- Past continuous
- was/were sporulating
- Past perfect
- had sporulated
- Past perfect continuous
- had been sporulating
- Future
- will sporulate
- Future continuous
- will be sporulating
- Future perfect
- will have sporulated
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been sporulating
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Usage notes
Primary category: horror. Forms: sporulate; sporulates; sporulated; sporulated; sporulating Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Third-person singular: sporulates.
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