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sporophytenoun(botany) A plant (or the diploid phase in its life cycle) which produces spores by meiosis in order to produce gametophytes.
exosporynoun(botany) The production of spores that germinate to form free-living gametophytes
sporophorenounA spore-producing organ, especially a fungus hypha specialized to carry spores.
diplophytenoun(biology) sporophyte
endosporynoun(botany) The production of gametophytes within a spore.
gamophytenoun(biology) gametophyte
diplosporynoun(biology) gametophytic apomixis in which the megagametophyte arises from a cell of the archesporium
sporogenynounsporogenesis
sporophyllnoun(botany) The equivalent to a leaf, in ferns and mosses, that bears the sporangia.
sporophylnounAlternative form of sporophyll. [(botany) The equivalent to a leaf, in ferns and mosses, that bears the sporangia.]
polysporangiophytenounAny plant in which the sporophyte has a structure of branching stems (axes) terminating in sporangia.
sporangiosporenounA spore produced by a sporangium (in many fungi, such as zygomycetes).
sporificationnoun(biology) The formation of spores.
sporidesmnoun(botany, rare) A pluricellular body which becomes free like a simple spore, and in which every cell is capable of germination.
heterosporynoun(botany) The production of spores of two different sizes and sexes by the sporophytes of land plants.
microsporogenesisnoun(botany) In angiosperms, the formation of pollen and thus the production of the male gametophyte.
homosporenoun(botany) any plant producing spores of the same size and type.
aboosporenoun(biology) An oomycete spore that functions like an oospore but has been produced asexually.
archesporiumnoun(botany) Any of the cells of the sporangium that give rise to spores.
sporontnoun(biology) In the sexual reproduction of certain sporozoans: an encysted spore, developed from a zygote, which undergoes sporogony to form sporozoites.

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