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MACROSPORE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does macrospore mean?
• MACROSPORE (noun)
The noun MACROSPORE has 1 sense:
1. larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte
Familiarity information: MACROSPORE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
macrospore; megaspore
Hypernyms ("macrospore" is a kind of...):
spore (a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion)
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