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Definition of Homospory
1. Noun. The development of a single kind of asexual spores.
Definition of Homospory
1. [n -RIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Homospory
Literary usage of Homospory
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Practical Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Otis William Caldwell (1911)
"homospory (similar spores). The condition in plants which produce but one kind
... Pertaining to homospory. Host. The plant upon or within which parasitic ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1898)
"From this point of view it would seem natural to expect that it may have been
derived frequently from homospory. The retention of the megaspore, however, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"... origin of the seed habit and the result is no more natural than the Exogenous
and Endogenous classes or than one which attempted to use homospory and ..."
4. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"From this point of view it would seem natural to expect that it may have been
derived frequently from homospory. " The retention of the megaspore, however, ..."
5. A Textbook of Botany for Colleges and Universities by John Merle Coulter, Charles Reid Barnes, Henry Chandler Cowles (1911)
"... alternation must be an improvement over homospory and lack of alternation.
Probably the decadence of the heterosporous pteridophytes and of many groups ..."