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Definition of Homosporous
1. Adjective. Characterized by homospory.
Definition of Homosporous
1. Adjective. (botany) producing spores of the same size and type. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Homosporous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Homosporous
1. Producing only one kind of spore in the sexual reproductive cycle, and hence one gametophyte which produces both male and female gametes. Compare: heterosporous. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homosporous
Literary usage of Homosporous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"Some cones appear to have been homosporous and others ... They consist of peltate
sporangiophores carrying from five to 10 homosporous sporangia. ..."
2. A Course of Practical Instruction in Botany by Frederick Orpen Bower (1891)
"... I. homosporous Type ASPIDIUM FILIX-MAS (The Male Shield Fern) A.—MATURE
SPOROPHYTE I.—External Characters I. Taking a well-grown plant of the common ..."
3. Strasburger's Text-book of Botany by Eduard Strasburger, Hans Fitting (1921)
"homosporous ; stem herbaceous, dichotomously branched, with alternate, simple,
or scale-like leaves ; rhizomes in place of roots; sporophylls forked, ..."
4. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"On the question of detailed proof of the homosporous nature of these plants the
reply for a given case has been supplied by Scott. ..."
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