ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Microspore

Definition & Meaning

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Microspore is a noun meaning (botany) The smaller spore of a heterosporous plant, typically producing a male gametophyte.

Meaning

(botany) The smaller spore of a heterosporous plant, typically producing a male gametophyte.

More Meanings

  1. (zoology) One of the numerous tiny spore-like elements produced through the encystment and subdivision of many monads.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pollen, embryogenesis, megaspore, macrospore, microsporocarp, microsporocyte.

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