Definition of Archesporium

1. Noun. Primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops.

Exact synonyms: Archespore
Generic synonyms: Cell
Derivative terms: Archesporial, Archesporial

Definition of Archesporium

1. [n -RIA]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Archesporium

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

Literary usage of Archesporium

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

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1895)
"BOWER, FRS Professor Bower pointed out that the recognition of the archesporium as consistently of hypodermal origin cannot be upheld, mid quoted as ..."

2. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"But if all the sporogenous tissue is an archesporium, in this case contributed to by cells deeper than the ... In both cases the archesporium is hypodermal; ..."

3. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Eberhard Goebel (1905)
"THE archesporium. The origin of the sporogenous cell-mass has given rise in recent years to a series of investigations especially directed to the solution ..."

4. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"Secondly, Goebel's method of recognition of the archesporium is not consistent: he designates the inner product of the hypodermal layer in the ..."

5. The Structure & Development of the Mosses & Ferns (Archegoniatae). by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1895)
"The origin of the archesporium in Anthoceros was in the main correctly shown by Leitgeb,2 but I find that the extent of the ..."

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