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Definition of Archegonium
1. Noun. A female sex organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms.
Definition of Archegonium
1. n. The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.
Definition of Archegonium
1. Noun. (botany) A multicellular reproductive structure that contains a large, non-motile gamete (egg cell), and within which an embryo will develop. ¹
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Definition of Archegonium
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Medical Definition of Archegonium
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Archegonium
Literary usage of Archegonium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Eusporangiatae: The Comparative Morphology of the Ophioglossaceae and by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1911)
"THE archegonium. The archegonium in the Ophioglossaceae is very much like that
of the ... The mother cell of the archegonium, like that of the antheridium, ..."
2. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"THE archegonium. i. STRUCTURE AND POSITION. The form of the archegonium is
everywhere uniform in so far as it consists of a neck which provides the path for ..."
3. Fecundation in Plants by David Myers Mottier (1904)
"THE archegonium. The development of the archegonium in the ... Before the
archegonium is full grown the nuclei of these cells show a ..."
4. On the Germination, Development, and Fructification of the Higher by Wilhelm Hofmeister, Frederick Currey (1862)
"... axis of the archegonium. Cross longitudinal septa are produced in each of the
two halves, and then again slightly inclined transverse septa are formed. ..."
5. The Structure and Development of Mosses and Ferns (Archegoniatae) by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1905)
"This arises from the archegonium mother cell not projecting at all, but we have
seen that in cross- section a similar arrangement of the cells is presented ..."
6. A University Text-book of Botany by Douglas Houghton. Campbell (1907)
"archegonium. — The sexual organs of the Pteridophytes are similar to those of
... The archegonium (Fig. 206) has the venter imbedded in the tissue of the ..."
7. An Introduction to Vegetable Physiology by Joseph Reynolds Green (1907)
"An archegonium is a more complex structure than an oogonium, being composed of
many cells and showing differentiation into a venter and a neck (fig. 173). ..."
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