Definition of Archesporial

1. Adjective. Of or relating to the cells in a sporangium that give rise to spores.

Category relationships: Botany, Phytology
Partainyms: Archespore
Derivative terms: Archespore, Archesporium

Definition of Archesporial

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Archesporial

archer fish
archeress
archeresses
archerfish
archerfishes
archeries
archerite
archers
archership
archerships
archery
arches
arches of the foot
archespore
archesporia
archesporial (current term)
archesporium
archest
archetypal
archetypally
archetype
archetyped
archetypes
archetypical
archetypically
archetyping
archeus
archfiend
archfiends
archfoe

Literary usage of Archesporial

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1902)
"Meanwhile the archesporial cells are undergoing considerable changes which ... At the time of rapid elongation of the nucellus, the archesporial cells, too, ..."

2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1907)
"archesporial cell in a section parallel to the surface of the sporophyll. ... Periclinal division of archesporial cell (exceptional). ..."

3. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series by California academy of sciences (1897)
"At the time when both of the integuments of the ovary are clearly distinguishable, the archesporial cell is easily made out by reason of its relatively ..."

4. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"Doubtless all of the hypodermal cells are potentially archesporial, and there is reason for believing that the deeper cells of the nucellus, most of which ..."

5. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"According to Goebel the whole sporogenous tissue, as seen in the radial section in S. spinulosa, is referable in origin to a single archesporial cell, ..."

6. Plant Anatomy from the Standpoint of the Development and Functions of the by William Chase Stevens (1910)
"... forward growth of tissue to form the integument; Cb, nu, nucellus; in, integument; D, more highly magnified drawing of o in A showing archesporial cell ..."

7. Plant Anatomy from the Standpoint of the Development and Functions of the by William Chase Stevens (1916)
"4 showing archesporial cell at a; E, a, archesporial cell enlarged ... nu, nucellus; G, row of four megaspores descended from the archesporial cell, ..."

8. The Eusporangiatae: The Comparative Morphology of the Ophioglossaceae and by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1911)
"The outer cells derived from the archesporial complex cB FiG. ... Bower thought that some of the inner cells of the archesporial tissue contributed to this ..."

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