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Definition of Microspores
1. microspore [n] - See also: microspore
Lexicographical Neighbors of Microspores
Literary usage of Microspores
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The spores are of two kinds (microspores and megaspores). There is but one family
of these pretty, aquatic or mud-loving plants. ..."
2. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1907)
"... formed differ from the microspores chiefly in size ; in the Phanerogams they
are never liberated from the sporangium and have consequently thin and ..."
3. An Introduction to Structural Botany: Part II, Flowerless Plants by Dukinfield Henry Scott (1897)
"We cannot understand the relation of the microspores and megaspores to each other,
... The microspores are thus set free, and if they fall on to damp earth ..."
4. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"We must therefore speak here of the germination of the microspores. ...
The development of the microspores in germination has been made known to us ..."
5. Plant Life and Plant Uses: An Elementary Textbook, a Foundation for the by John Gaylord Coulter (1913)
"G. Pollen Grains not Exactly microspores. — It is not altogether accurate to call
pollen grains microspores. In a young pollen sac which has not yet opened ..."
6. Observations on the Structure of Fossil Plants Found in the Carboniferous Strata by Edward William Binney (1875)
"... AND microspores. Professor Morris many years ago remarked of the capsules from
the Coalbrookdale Coalfield that they are neither mineralized nor ..."
7. Nature and Development of Plants by Carlton Clarence Curtis (1918)
"The microspores are carried to the stigmas of the pistils by the wind. ...
The microspores must be produced in large numbers since the chance of one ..."
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