Definition of Carposporic

1. Adjective. Relating to or resembling a carpospore.

Partainyms: Carpospore
Derivative terms: Carpospore

Lexicographical Neighbors of Carposporic

carpopedal
carpopedal contraction
carpopedal spasm
carpophagous
carpophore
carpophores
carpophylls
carpophyte
carpophytes
carpoptosis
carport
carports
carpospore
carpospores
carposporic (current term)
carposporous
carprofen
carps
carpule
carpus
carpus curvus
carr
carrack
carracks
carract
carracts
carrageen
carrageen moss
carrageenan

Literary usage of Carposporic

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

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"By Byron D. Halsted. 6. Starch Distribution as affected by Fungi. By Byron D. Halsted. 7. The carposporic Type of Reproduction of ..."

2. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1896)
"... parvula (J. Ag.) Harv. is representative of a type of carposporic reproduction remarkable for the phenomenon of cell fusion which takes place previous ..."

3. Outlines of Botany for the High School Laboratory and Classroom by Robert Greenleaf Leavitt, Charles Herbert Clark, Mrs. Sophia M'Ilvaine (Bledsoe) Herrick, Asa Gray (1901)
"... 3) carposporic. An important system of classification of both Algae and Fungi (in which essentially the same reproductive processes occur as in Algae) ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"... etc., discussed the cytological problems concerned with the carposporic type of reproduction found in the Rhodo- ..."

5. Sexual Reproduction and the Organization of the Nucleus in Certain Mildews by Robert Almer Harper (1905)
"... was doubtless a true carposporic method of '• ^ * - "' ' * ••"""--••- -~__.>?.^ _._».-•..*•- "— -**"-•'*--•! ..."

6. Annual Record of Science and Industry for 1871-78 by Spencer Fullerton Baird (1877)
"... founding his statement on the fact that in a new species of Mortierella, which belongs undoubtedly to the Zygomycetes, a carposporic fruit is developed. ..."

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