Definition of Tetrasporangium

1. Noun. A sporangium containing four asexual spores.

Generic synonyms: Sporangium, Spore Case, Spore Sac

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tetrasporangium

tetrasilicide
tetrasilicides
tetrasiloxane
tetrasiloxanes
tetrasilver
tetraskele
tetraskelion
tetrasodium
tetrasodium pyrophosphate
tetrasomic
tetraspan
tetraspanin
tetraspanins
tetraspans
tetrasporangium (current term)
tetraspores
tetrasporic
tetraster
tetrastich
tetrastichiasis
tetrastichs
tetrastyle
tetrasubstituted
tetrasulfide
tetrasulfides
tetrasulfur
tetrasulfur tetranitride
tetrasulphur

Literary usage of Tetrasporangium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1916)
"The chromato- phore of the mother cell of the tetrasporangium is a clathrate, ... The mature tetrasporangium is 66/j in length and 44/i in width. ..."

2. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1902)
"He finds a strong "organic similarity" between the auxiliary-cell of the fertilized carpogonium and the tetrasporangium mother-cell. lu the one case the ..."

3. Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Classroom by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt, Charles Herbert Clark, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine (Bledsoe) Herrick, Asa Gray (1901)
"... is the contents of each tetrasporangium divided? (It should be said that the ... Draw a tetrasporangium with a short portion of the thallus adjoining. ..."

4. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1901)
"The tetrasporangium arises from an upper cell in a young node, often enclosed later by a bract-like growth of other adjoining nodal cells. ..."

5. Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Classroom: (based on by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt (1901)
"... is the contents of each tetrasporangium divided? (It should be said that the ... Draw a tetrasporangium with a short portion of the thallus adjoining. ..."

6. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting, William Henry Lang (1921)
"... the reduction division is relegated to the tetrasporangium, so that the gametophyte proceeding from the ..."

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