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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A leaflike structure that bears megasporangia.
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- noun A
sporophyll that bearsmegasporangia .
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- noun in non-flowering plants, a sporophyll that bears only megasporangia
Etymologies
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mega- + sporophyll
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These, as in Gymnosperms, are of two kinds, microspores or pollen-grains, borne in the stamens (or microsporophylls) and megaspores, in which the egg-cell is developed, contained in the ovule, which is borne enclosed in the carpel (or megasporophyll).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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