Definition of Sporophylls

1. sporophyll [n] - See also: sporophyll

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sporophylls

sporogenic
sporogenous
sporogonia
sporogonic
sporogonies
sporogonium
sporoid
sporont
sporophores
sporophoric
sporophyl
sporophyll
sporophylls (current term)
sporophyls
sporophytes
sporophytic
sporoplasm
sporopollenin
sporopollenins
sporotheca
sporothrix granuloma
sporotrichoses
sporotrichosis
sporotrichositic chancre
sporozoa

Literary usage of Sporophylls

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)
"The distribution through water occurs in the case of the .sporophylls of the Mar- ... sporophylls which produce spores that are scattered by the wind ..."

2. The New International Encyclopædia by Daniel Colt Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"... consisting of spore-bearing leaves (sporophylls, qv), each of which bears five to ten spore-cases (sporangia) on its lower surface (Fig. 2). ..."

3. Nature and Development of Plants by Carlton Clarence Curtis (1918)
"hairs are associated with the sporophylls. These are supposed to represent sterile sporophylls and this is borne out by the fact that primitive flowers are ..."

4. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"SPORANGIOPHORES AND sporophylls. THE theoretical position taken up in the last chapter is characterised not only by its simplicity but also by its ..."

5. The Living Cycads by Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1919)
"The male and female sporophylls are borne upon the same plant and are close ... This condition differs little from that shown by the female sporophylls of ..."

6. The American Naturalist by American Society of Naturalists, Essex Institute (1896)
"force the vegetative function on the sporophylls, causing them to develop into more or less complete vegetative leaves. The experiments on Onoclea convince ..."

7. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1896)
"The sporophylls (cone scales) of these flowers are closely arranged spirally on an axis which is at this time about 4""" in length, and are surrounded by ..."

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