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HETEROSPORY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does heterospory mean?
• HETEROSPORY (noun)
The noun HETEROSPORY has 1 sense:
1. the development of both microspores and megaspores
Familiarity information: HETEROSPORY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The development of both microspores and megaspores
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural processes
Hypernyms ("heterospory" is a kind of...):
monogenesis; sporulation (asexual reproduction by the production and release of spores)
Derivation:
heterosporous (characterized by heterospory)
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