spore-bearing plant

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• spore mother cell — noun cell from which a spore develops • Hypernyms: ↑mother cell * * * noun : one of the cells of the archespore of a spore bearing plant whose final divisions result in the production of a spore and usually of a tetrad of spores …   Useful english dictionary

• plant — plantable, adj. plantless, adj. plantlike, adj. /plant, plahnt/, n. 1. any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that… …   Universalium

• spore — sporal, adj. sporoid, adj. /spawr, spohr/, n., v., spored, sporing. n. 1. Biol. a walled, single to many celled, reproductive body of an organism, capable of giving rise to a new individual either directly or indirectly. 2. a germ, germ cell,… …   Universalium

• spore —   n. plant s or protozoan s reproductive body.    ♦ sporiferous, a. producing spores.    ♦ sporocarp, n. body producing spores.    ♦ sporogenesis, n. reproduction by, or production of, spores.    ♦ sporogony, n. reproduction by spores.    ♦… …   Dictionary of difficult words

• Plant sexuality — Close up of an Echinopsis spachiana flower, showing both carpels (only the styles and stigmas are visible) and stamens, making it a perfect flower. Plant sexuality covers the wide variety of sexual reproduction systems found across the plant… …   Wikipedia

• spore fruit — noun : a specialized structure (as an ascocarp) that produces spores : fruiting body * * * Bot., Mycol. a spore bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp. [1855 60] * * * spore fruit, any part of a plant that produces spores, such as an… …   Useful english dictionary

• Plant physiology — is a subdiscipline of botany concerned with the function, or physiology, of plants.Salisbury, Frank B. Cleon W. Ross, 1992. Plant physiology , 4th ed. (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing). ISBN 0 534 15162 0] Closely related fields include …   Wikipedia

• Rhynie plant — ▪ fossil plant       rootless, leafless, spore bearing plant preserved in the Rhynie Chert, a mineral deposit that has been dated to the early part of the Devonian Period (416 to 359 million years ago), near present day Aberdeen, Scot. Rhynia,… …   Universalium

• spore — 1. The asexual or sexual reproductive body of fungi or sporozoan protozoa. 2. A cell of a plant lower in organization than the seed bearing spermatophytic plants. 3. A resistant form of certain species of bacteria …   Medical dictionary

• reproductive system, plant — Introduction       any of the systems, sexual or asexual, by which plants reproduce. In plants, as in animals, the end result of reproduction is the continuation of a given species, and the ability to reproduce is, therefore, rather conservative …   Universalium

• Flowering plant — Flowering plants Temporal range: Early Cretaceous Recent …   Wikipedia