Definition of Eusporangiate

1. Adjective. (of ferns) having sporangia that arise from a group of epidermal cells. "Eusporangiate ferns of the families Ophioglossaceae and Marattiaceae"


Medical Definition of Eusporangiate

1. Of ferns, having sporangia with walls more than one cell thick. Compare: leptosporangiate. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eusporangiate

eurythermal
eurythermic
eurythermous
eurytherms
eurythmic
eurythmics
eurythmies
eurythmy
eurytopic
euscope
euskaltegi
eusocial
eusociality
eusol
eusols
eusporangiate (current term)
eusporangium
eustachian
eustachian catheter
eustachian cushion
eustachian tonsil
eustachian tube
eustachian tuber
eustachian valve
eustachitis
eustacies
eustacy
eustasies
eustasy
eustatic

Literary usage of Eusporangiate

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

1. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel (1905)
"... far from being typical, is only a single case, no doubt widely spread, but hardly to be considered as the primary. i. THE eusporangiate ..."

2. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"The revolt against this position was initiated by Campbell,2 who definitely gave precedence to the eusporangiate types. Over and above the difficulties of ..."

3. The New International Encyclopaedia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1906)
"It is natural, therefore, to regard the eusporangiate condition as primitive, ... In the eusporangiate plants such a contrivance is absent. ..."

4. The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae). by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1905)
"Subsequent study of the eusporangiate Ferns has strengthened that belief, ... The sexual organs —and this is true of all the eusporangiate ..."

5. The Eusporangiatae: The Comparative Morphology of the Ophioglossaceae and by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1911)
"1 he eusporangiate ferns as they now exist represent but a few isolated fragments of what in earlier geologic time was presumably a very much larger and ..."

6. Heredity and Evolution in Plants by Charles Stuart Gager (1920)
"dicotyledons, as being derived from the latter by a process of simplification (Cf. p. 223). The structural and anatomical evidence that eusporangiate ferns ..."

7. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1895)
"Campbell, of I/eland Stanford, has argued ably the claims of the eusporangiate fern ... Bower and Campbell would establish an eusporangiate origin. ..."

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