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microsporangium

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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 or container that holds microspores.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a plant structure that produces microspores

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