Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or relating to the sporangium: as, the sporangial layer.
- Containing spores; having the character of a sporangium; pertaining to sporangia.
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- adjective Relating to the
sporangium .
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Examples
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This species sometimes bears clusters of very small sporangia attached to the middle of the ordinary sporangial filament (Fig. 32, _F_, _H_).
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
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Fructification: by zoospores, either single or very numerous, and by resting spores formed in sporangial cells after the contents have been impregnated by the contents of autheridial cells of different forms.
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Reproduction by zoospores formed of the whole contents of a cell, with a crown of numerous cilia; resting spores formed in sporangial cells after fecundation by ciliated spermatozoids formed in antheridial cells.
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Some of the cells enlarged, and then forming either vesicular empty cells or densely filled sporangial cells.
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The close compression of the spores within the sporangium leads to a complete fusion of the encysting wall of each one with those of the others which it touches and with the sporangial wall.
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Zodspores escaping each by a separate perforation of the sporangial wall, leaving a ** net. "
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