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sporocarp


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sporocarp  \Spo"ro*carp\,  n.  [Spore  +  Gr  ?  fruit.]  (Bot.) 
  a  A  closed  body  or  conceptacle  containing  one  or  more 
  masses  of  spores  or  sporangia. 
  b  A  sporangium. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sporocarp 
  n  :  specialized  leaf  branch  in  certain  aquatic  ferns  that 
  encloses  the  sori  or  clusters  of  sporangia  [syn:  {spore 
  case}] 




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