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sporophytemore about sporophyte

sporophyte


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Sporophyte  \Spo"ro*phyte\,  n.  [Spore  +  Gr  ?  plant.]  (Bot.) 
  In  plants  exhibiting  alternation  of  generations,  the 
  generation  which  bears  asexual  spores;  --  opposed  to 
  {gametophyte}.  It  is  not  clearly  differentiated  in  the  life 
  cycle  of  the  lower  plants.  --  {Spo`ro*phyt"ic},  a. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  sporophyte 
  n  :  the  spore-producing  individual  or  phase  in  the  life  cycle  of 
  a  plant  having  alternation  of  generations 




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