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Definition of Megasporangia
1. megasporangium [n] - See also: megasporangium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Megasporangia
Literary usage of Megasporangia
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, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"When we compare LI- development of the megasporangia in the heterosporous
Pteridophyta »•- that of their microsporangia, two facts of general interest ..."
2. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"The history of the development of the microsporangia and megasporangia is strikingly
similar. ... megasporangia ..."
3. The Anatomy of Woody Plants by Edward Charles Jeffrey (1917)
"In the case of the sporangia which give rise to megaspores, or the megasporangia,
the conditions connected with opening are the same as those exhibited by ..."
4. Plant Life and Plant Uses: An Elementary Textbook, a Foundation for the by John Gaylord Coulter (1913)
"All ovules are megasporangia, though of course all ... The carpels are mega-
sporophylls, the megasporangia which they bear being called ovules. ..."
5. General Botany for Universities and Colleges by Hiram Delos Densmore (1920)
"The ovules of the spruce, like those of the cycad, are therefore true megasporangia,
in which a single megaspore, produced by the usual processes of spore ..."
6. Elementary Studies in Botany by John Merle Coulter (1913)
"Therefore the sporangia that produce megaspores are called megasporangia, ...
In Selaginella (the heterosporous Club-mosses) the megasporangia are usually ..."
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