- spore-bearing
- adjectivebearing spores instead of producing seeds• Similar to: ↑flowerless, ↑nonflowering
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spore — sporal, adj. sporoid, adj. /spawr, spohr/, n., v., spored, sporing. n. 1. Biol. a walled, single to many celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly. 2. a germ, germ cell,… … Universalium
spore mother cell — noun cell from which a spore develops • Hypernyms: ↑mother cell * * * noun : one of the cells of the archespore of a spore bearing plant whose final divisions result in the production of a spore and usually of a tetrad of spores … Useful english dictionary
spore — n. plant s or protozoan s reproductive body. ♦ sporiferous, a. producing spores. ♦ sporocarp, n. body producing spores. ♦ sporogenesis, n. reproduction by, or production of, spores. ♦ sporogony, n. reproduction by spores. ♦… … Dictionary of difficult words
spore fruit — noun : a specialized structure (as an ascocarp) that produces spores : fruiting body * * * Bot., Mycol. a spore bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp. [1855 60] * * * spore fruit, any part of a plant that produces spores, such as an… … Useful english dictionary
spore fruit — Bot., Mycol. a spore bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp. [1855 60] * * * … Universalium
spore — 1. The asexual or sexual reproductive body of fungi or sporozoan protozoa. 2. A cell of a plant lower in organization than the seed bearing spermatophytic plants. 3. A resistant form of certain species of bacteria … Medical dictionary
reproductive system, plant — Introduction any of the systems, sexual or asexual, by which plants reproduce. In plants, as in animals, the end result of reproduction is the continuation of a given species, and the ability to reproduce is, therefore, rather conservative … Universalium
plant — plantable, adj. plantless, adj. plantlike, adj. /plant, plahnt/, n. 1. any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that… … Universalium
bryophyte — bryophytic /bruy euh fit ik/, adj. /bruy euh fuyt /, n. Bot. any of the Bryophyta, a phylum of nonvascular plants comprising the true mosses and liverworts. [1875 80; < NL Bryophyta name of the group; see BRYO , PHYTE] * * * Any of the green,… … Universalium
Fungus — Fungi redirects here. You may be looking for Fungi (music) or Fungus (XM). Fungi Temporal range: Early Devonian–Recent (but see text) … Wikipedia
