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Definition of Sporophyte
1. Noun. The spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations.
Definition of Sporophyte
1. n. In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; -- opposed to gametophyte. It is not clearly differentiated in the life cycle of the lower plants.
Definition of Sporophyte
1. Noun. (botany) A plant (or the diploid phase in its life cycle) which produces spores by meiosis in order to produce gametophytes. ¹
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Definition of Sporophyte
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Medical Definition of Sporophyte
1. Spore producing plant generation. The dominant generation in pteridophytes and higher plants and alternates with the gametophyte generation. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sporophyte
Literary usage of Sporophyte
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 OLDER sporophyte. The vascular system of the adult sporophyte in the ...
A thorough study of the condition in the early stages of the sporophyte is ..."
2. The Eusporangiatae: The Comparative Morphology of the Ophioglossaceae and by Douglas Houghton Campbell (1911)
"THE OLDER sporophyte. The vascular system of the adult sporophyte in the ...
A thorough study of the condition in the early stages of the sporophyte is ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"It must be admitted that the term sporophyte is a misnomer in those simple forms
which do not produce spores, but the fundamental feature is this, ..."
4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"This egg, thus fertilized, is the first cell of the fern plant which ultimately
produces spores and is therefore called the sporophyte. After fertilization ..."
5. The Origin of a Land Flora: A Theory Based Upon the Facts of Alternation by Frederick Orpen Bower (1908)
"THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A FREE-LIVING sporophyte. So far the shoot only of the
sporophyte has been the subject of discussion : it remains to consider the ..."
6. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"CHAPTER XXIX THE EVOLUTION OF THE sporophyte AND DEGENERATION OF THE GAMETOPHYTE
375. The evolution of the sporophyte. Alternation of generations had its ..."
7. Principles of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Bradley Moore Davis (1906)
"CHAPTER XXIX THE EVOLUTION OF THE sporophyte AND DEGENERATION OF THE GAMETOPHYTE
375. The evolution of the sporophyte. Alternation of generations had its ..."
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