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Definition of Sporophyll

1. Noun. Leaf in ferns and mosses that bears the sporangia.

Definition of Sporophyll

1. Noun. (botany) The equivalent to a leaf, in ferns and mosses, that bears the sporangia ¹

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Definition of Sporophyll

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Sporophyll

1. A specialised leaf-like organ on which one or more sporangia are borne. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sporophyll

Literary usage of Sporophyll

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

1. The Eusporangiatae: The Comparative Morphology of the Ophioglossaceae and by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1911)
"THE sporophyll OF THE ... but in the other genera the sporophyll is not at all contracted and much the greater part of the leaf surface is free (figs. ..."

2. The Eusporangiatae: The Comparative Morphology of the Ophioglossaceae and by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1911)
"THE sporophyll OF THE MARATTIACEAE. The Marattiaceae differ most strikingly from the Ophioglossaceae in the character of the sporo- phylls. ..."

3. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1896)
"the floral axis accompanied by an elongation of the basal portion of each sporophyll. The growth of the axis is greatest between the lowest sporophyll and ..."

4. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"In the youngest the whole sporophyll is shown (/), and the axis (j/), and it is seen that the sporangium arises upon the surface of the sporophyll. x 200. ..."

5. Organography of Plants, Especially of the Archegoniata and Spermaphyta by Karl Goebel, Isaac Bayley Balfour (1905)
"The sporophyll does not arise upon the margin, but upon the upper side of the sterile leaf-portion. In Ophioglossum palmatum the marginal position is also ..."

6. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"The sporangia were sometimes attached for nearly their whole length to the adaxial face of the sporophyll while in other cases t'hev are thought to have ..."

7. Flora of the Rocky Mountains and Adjacent Plains, Colorado, Utah, Wyoming by Per Axel Rydberg (1917)
"sporophyll and sterile leaf-blade with the apex or upper part bent down in the bud. Sterile leaf-blade sessile or subsessile, ..."

8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"An integument grew up from the superior surface of the sporophyll, ... Sporangium dendron, ranges throughout the Carbon- sporophyll before ¡ferons, ..."

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