Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A specialized fungal hypha bearing one or more sporangia.
- noun A stalk of a sporangium.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In bot, the axis or receptacle which bears the sporangia: a sporophore bearing sporangia. See
sporophore .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) The axis or receptacle in certain ferns (as
Trichomanes ), which bears the sporangia.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany The
axis orreceptacle in certainferns (such as Trichomanes), which bears thesporangia .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun stalk bearing one or more sporangia
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Phycomyces, the sporangiophore, in the belief that in the field of transducer physiology, as in genetics, essential progress will require the use of a suitable microorganism.
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The surface tension catapult is not capable of the discharge distances characteristic of squirt gun mechanisms like the explosive asci of ascomycete fungi and the sporangiophore of
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The fungus Pilobolus fires off its sporangiophore using a water cannon or "squirt gun," reaching accelerations that are among the fastest in nature.
BC Bloggers 2008
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Here we present a montage of high-speed video clips showing sporangiophore discharge in the fungus Pilobolus kleinii.
BC Bloggers 2008
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Montage of high-speed video clips showing sporangiophore discharge in the fungus Pilobolus kleinii.
MicrobiologyBytes 2008
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