Definition of Apospory

1. a type of reproduction without spore formation [n -RIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apospory

aposematic coloration
aposematically
aposematism
aposematisms
aposiopeses
aposiopesis
aposiopestic
aposiopetic
apositia
apositias
apositic
aposome
aposporic
apospories
aposporous
apospory (current term)
apostacies
apostacy
apostacys
apostasies
apostasy
apostate
apostates
apostatic
apostatical
apostatise
apostatised
apostatises
apostatising
apostatize

Literary usage of Apospory

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

1. The Study of the Biology of Ferns by the Collodion Method: For Advanced and by George Francis Atkinson (1894)
"Such phenomena are known as apogamy and apospory. Fig. 147. ... apospory. — apospory is the development of the gametophyte from the sporophyte without the ..."

2. Report of the Annual Meeting (1899)
"On the other hand, the circumstances which precede or accompany apospory are ... Among Ferns, the conditions of nutrition which precede apospory have not ..."

3. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1907)
"apospory is also known to occur among the Mosses. In the Ferns, again, the sporophyte sometimes arises as a bud or vegetative outgrowth upon the ..."

4. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"apospory By apospory is meant the remarkable phenomena which are expressed in the suppression of the formation of the spores. To a certain extent it • is ..."

5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"In the second, the gametophyte may be developed otherwise than from a post- meiotic spore, a condition known as apospory. ..."

6. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"apospory and Apogamy. Although it is the rule that the gametophyte springs from the spore produced asexually by the ..."

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