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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A structure in which microspores are formed.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A sporangium containing microspores: the homologue of the pollen-sac in phanerogams.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A sporangium or conceptacle containing only very minute spores. Cf.
macrosporangium .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
case ,capsule orcontainer that holdsmicrospores .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a plant structure that produces microspores
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To deal first with the microsporangium or pollen-sac.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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