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Definition of Sporophore

1. Noun. A spore-bearing branch or organ: the part of the thallus of a sporophyte that develops spores; in ferns and mosses and liverworts is practically equivalent to the sporophyte.

Definition of Sporophore

1. n. A placenta.

Definition of Sporophore

1. Noun. A spore-producing organ, especially a fungus hypha specialized to carry spores. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sporophore

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Medical Definition of Sporophore

1. A placenta. That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore. Origin: Spore + Gr. To bear. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

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Literary usage of Sporophore

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

1. Annals of Botany by IDEAL (Project) (1888)
"In the account of the anatomy of the sporophore of Mosses which I have given ... 1 Vaizey, On the Anatomy and Development of the sporophore of the Musei ..."

2. A Laboratory Manual in Elementary Biology: An Inductive Study in Animal and by Emanuel Roth Boyer (1894)
"The sporophore is the conspicuous fern-plant generally known, and bears on the lower surface of its frond minute seed-like structures (spores) which are ..."

3. A Laboratory Manual in Elementary Biology: An Inductive Study in Animal and by Emanuel Roth Boyer (1894)
"The sporophore is the conspicuous fern-plant generally known, and bears on the lower surface of its frond minute seed-like structures (spores) which are ..."

4. Laboratory Manual in Elementary Biology by Emanuel Roth Boyer (1894)
"The sporophore is the conspicuous fern-plant generally known, and bears on the lower surface of its frond minute seed-like structures (spores) which are ..."

5. A Course of Practical Instruction in Botany by Frederick Orpen Bower, Sydney Howard Vines (1885)
"C.—THE YOUNG sporophore, OR FERN PLANT. V. The result of the process of ... or sporophore, and in cultures which have been continued for some months such ..."

6. The Fungi which Cause Plant Disease by Frank Lincoln Stevens (1913)
"Pores minute and rounded or large and angular sporophore resupinate, never shelving 3. ... sporophore from the first leathery or spongy usually annual 5. ..."

7. An Introduction to General Biology by William Thompson Sedgwick, Edmund Beecher Wilson (1895)
"... being both male and female (hermaphrodite or bisexual). In general terms this is expressed by calling the ordinary fern the spore-bearer, or sporophore, ..."

8. An Introduction to General Biology by William Thompson Sedgwick, Edmund Beecher Wilson (1895)
"... being both male and female (hermaphrodite or bisexual). In general terms this is expressed by calling the ordinary fern the spore-bearer, or sporophore, ..."

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