Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Phaeospore \Ph[ae]"o*spore\, n. [Gr. ? dusky + E. spore.] (Bot.)
   A brownish zo["o]spore, characteristic of an order
   ({Ph[ae]ospore[ae]}) of dark green or olive-colored alg[ae].
   -- {Ph[ae]`o*spor"ic}, a.