Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The diploid spore-producing phase in the life cycle of a plant that exhibits alternation of generations. It is the dominant stage in vascular plants.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, the segment or stage of the life-cycle of the higher cryptogams (Pteridophyta, Bryophyta) in which the non-sexual organs of reproduction are borne
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; -- opposed to
gametophyte . It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany A
plant (or thediploid phase in itslife cycle ) which producesspores bymeiosis in order to producegametophytes .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations
Etymologies
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Examples
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The asexual form, known as a sporophyte, is represented by the fern plant as it is commonly known.
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The asexual form, known as a sporophyte, is represented by the fern plant as it is commonly known.
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The asexual form, known as a sporophyte, is represented by the fern plant as it is commonly known.
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A pine tree is called a sporophyte because it develops from a spore produces spores is haploid can reproduce sexually and asexually cannot undergo meiosis
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Ulva produces isomorphic thalli for its diploid sporophyte and haploid gametophyte.
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Sometimes she could remember, sometimes there were flashes of brilliance, but sometimes she was lucky to remember the difference between the gametophyte and sporophyte stages of a fern.
Beowulf's Children Niven, Larry 1995
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The last-mentioned case has been regarded as representing an apogamous development of the sporophyte from the gametophyte comparable to the cases of apogamy described in Ferns.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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The common maiden-hair fern (_Adiantum pedatum_) has been selected here for studying the structure of the full-grown sporophyte, but almost any other common fern will answer.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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The terms oöphyte (egg-bearing plant) and sporophyte (spore-bearing plant, or sporogonium) are sometimes used to distinguish between the sexual plant and the spore-bearing one produced from it.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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The independent origin of this conducting system is of great interest for comparison with the vascular system of the sporophyte of the higher plants.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various
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