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Definition of Microsporophyll
1. Noun. In non-flowering plants, a sporophyll that bears only microsporangia.
Definition of Microsporophyll
1. Noun. a leaflike organ that bears one or more microsporangia (contrast megasporophyll) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Microsporophyll
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Medical Definition of Microsporophyll
1. A specialised leaf upon (or in the axil of) which one or more microsporangia are borne. (09 Oct 1997)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Microsporophyll
Literary usage of Microsporophyll
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Woody Plants by Edward Charles Jeffrey (1917)
"(a) longitudinal, (b) transverse, section of wood of bundle in microsporophyll
of Ginkgo. sporophyll, while the strands of phloem turn outward, ..."
2. A Student's Text-book of Botany by Sydney Howard Vines (1896)
"In other words, the microsporophyll consists of a filament bearing a ...
The gradual differentiation of the microsporophyll, wliich can be —my Fio. 296. ..."
3. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"It seems that the most primitive type of microsporophyll among Gymnosperms must
be that displayed by Cycas and its related genera, ..."
4. Botanical Abstracts by Board of Control of Botanical Abstracts (1921)
"It is interpreted as a microsporophyll, elliptical in form and about 11 X 21 mm,
in size, ... It is considered to represent the microsporophyll of either ..."
5. Nature and Development of Plants by Carlton Clarence Curtis (1918)
"28, microsporophyll enlarged, showing sporangia arranged in sori. ... 2D,
microsporophyll of Cycas. 3, cross-section of a strobilus of Zamia, ..."
6. Morphology of Spermatophytes by John Merle Coulter, Charles Joseph Chamberlain (1901)
"It seems that the most primitive type of microsporophyll among ... known some
light will be thrown upon the evolution of the microsporophyll in Gymnosperms. ..."
7. Elementary Studies in Botany by John Merle Coulter (1913)
"... observe also the integument at the top of the ovule with its passage
way (micropyle) to the nucellus. microsporophyll, the cone which bears ..."
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