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Definition of Megaspores
1. megaspore [n] - See also: megaspore
Lexicographical Neighbors of Megaspores
Literary usage of Megaspores
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and ...edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines edited by Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines (1912)
"The spores are of two kinds (microspores and megaspores). There is but one family
of these pretty, aquatic or mud-loving plants. ..."
2. An Introduction to Structural Botany by Dukinfield Henry Scott (1904)
"Germination of the megaspores Unlike the microspores, the megaspores of ...
Each of the four megaspores is tetrahedral in shape, like a microspore. ..."
3. Morphology of Angiosperms: (Morphology of Spermatophytes. Part II) by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1903)
"For example, Ikeda 106 reports four megaspores in Tricyrtis hirta, and Vesque 4
three in Hemerocallis, Allium, and Convallaria. Among the more primitive ..."
4. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1916)
"The homotypic division follows, thus giving rise to a row of 4 megaspores. Fig.
3 shows stages in the anaphase of this division. In the nuclei represented ..."
5. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1902)
"Of the megaspores thus produced, two or more may develop into young embryo-sacs,
and what is of immediate and special interest in this connection, ..."
6. The evolution of plant life, lower forms by George Massee (1891)
"... and megaspores— Modes of Branching—Fossil Forms. THE Pteridophyta or Vascular
Cryptogams are distinguished from all preceding groups by the greater ..."
7. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"a tendency that would seem very consistent with the development of megaspores,
whose peculiar work holds so definite a relation to abundant nutrition. ..."
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