Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A single-celled or many-celled structure in which spores are produced, especially in fungi, algae, mosses, and ferns.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a spore-case; the case or sac in cryptogamous plants in which the spores, which are the analogues of the seeds of the higher or flowering plants, are produced endogenously.
- noun Also
sporange .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
case ,capsule , orcontainer in whichspores are produced by anorganism .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun organ containing or producing spores
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word sporangium.
Examples
-
Later, the inner of these two layers becomes disorganized, so that the central mass of cells floats free in the cavity of the sporangium, which is now surrounded by but a single layer of cells (_E_).
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
-
At the end of each of its branches it bears a cone made of scaly leaves; and fixed to the inside of each of these leaves is a case called a sporangium, full of little spores or moss-seeds, as we may call them, though they are not exactly like true seeds.
The Fairy-Land of Science Arabella B. Buckley 1884
-
The most common form is the sporangium, which is usually stalked and ends in a capsule containing the spores
-
The most common form is the sporangium, which is usually stalked and ends in a capsule containing the spores
-
The most common form is the sporangium, which is usually stalked and ends in a capsule containing the spores
-
The most common form is the sporangium, which is usually stalked and ends in a capsule containing the spores
-
The most common form is the sporangium, which is usually stalked and ends in a capsule containing the spores
-
The most common form is the sporangium, which is usually stalked and ends in a capsule containing the spores
-
The most common form is the sporangium, which is usually stalked and ends in a capsule containing the spores
-
The most common form is the sporangium, which is usually stalked and ends in a capsule containing the spores
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.