mi|cro|spo|ran|gi|um

mi|cro|spo|ran|gi|um
mi|cro|spo|ran|gi|um «MY kroh spuh RAN jee uhm», noun, plural -gi|a «-jee uh».
Botany. a sporangium containing microspores, homologous with the sac containing the pollen in flowering plants: »

A microsporangium contains several hundred microspores (Fred W. Emerson).

[< New Latin microsporangium < micro- micro- + sporangium sporangium]

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