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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The female gametophyte that arises from a megaspore of a heterosporous plant. In angiosperms, the megagametophyte is the embryo sac.
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- noun biology Any
gametophyte that develops from amegaspore - noun biology A
female gametophyte
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- noun the female gametophyte produced by the megaspore of a plant that produces both microspore and megaspores
Etymologies
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mega- ("big") + gametophyte
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