Definition of Sporangia

1. Noun. (plural of sporangium) ¹

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Definition of Sporangia

1. sporangium [n] - See also: sporangium

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sporangia

spoots
sporades
sporadial
sporadic
sporadic E
sporadic bovine encephalomyelitis
sporadic bovine leukosis
sporadical
sporadically
sporadin
sporadotrichina
sporal
sporange
sporanges
sporangia (current term)
sporangial
sporangiophore
sporangiophores
spore case
spore germination protease
spore mother cell
spore photoproduct lyase
spore print
spore prints
spore sac
sporebearing
spored

Literary usage of Sporangia

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

1. A Text-book of Mycology and Plant Pathology by John William Harshberger (1917)
"A. Non-sexual spores formed in sporangia in many cases accompanied by conidiospores. (a) sporangia (at least the main sporangia) with columella. ..."

2. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"Nevertheless it will be best to treat the question of change of number of sporangia first of all in its relation to the Vascular Plants as a whole, ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"Coarse Ferns with sporangia on the under surface of the leaf, ... sporangia attached to a thread-like receptacle arising in a cup at the end of the leaf: ..."

4. Report of the Annual Meeting (1896)
"MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 21. The following Papers were read :— 1. On the Number of Spores in sporangia. By Professor FO BOWER, FRS 2. The Polymorphism of the Green ..."

5. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"The sporangia are the organs of propagation of the sporophyte. ... Other organs of the plant besides the sporangia are involved in these functions inasmuch ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The sporangiophores were ligulate and divided distad and each division bore two large pendant sporangia. The final order of the ..."

7. An Introduction to Structural Botany by Dukinfield Henry Scott (1904)
"THE sporangia AND SPORES When a Myxomycete fructifies it completely changes its appearance. The whole of the active protoplasm is used up to form a sorus of ..."

8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"15, A); the sporangia separated when mature, dehiscing by a ventral slit. ... In the Grand' Eurya of Slur the sporangia appear to have been free from each ..."

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