Microspore

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Botany The smaller of two types of spores that give rise to a male gametophyte.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A small spore.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. One of the exceedingly minute spores found in certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. macrospore.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. In botany, an asexually produced spore of small size as compared with others produced by the same species: the homologue of the pollen-grain of phanerogams.
  • n. In zoology, one of the spore-like elements, of exceedingly minute size, but very numerous, produced through the encystment and subsequent subdivision of many monads.
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  • n. smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in the pollen sac into a male gametophyte
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    spore   
    Variant
    macrospore   
     
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