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The spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations
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sporophyte
Word definitions for sporophyte in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sporophyte \Spo"ro*phyte\ (sp[=o]"r[-o]*f[imac]t), n. [Spore + Gr. fyto`n plant.] (Bot.) In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the generation which bears asexual spores; -- opposed to gametophyte . It is not clearly differentiated in the life ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
from sporo- + -phyte .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A sporophyte is the diploid multicellular stage in the life cycle of a plant or alga . It develops from the zygote produced when a haploid egg cell is fertilized by a haploid sperm and each sporophyte cell therefore has a double set of chromosomes , one ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the spore-producing individual or phase in the life cycle of a plant having alternation of generations
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context botany English) A plant (or the diploid phase in its life cycle) which produces spores by meiosis in order to produce gametophytes.
Usage examples of sporophyte.
Prothallus bearing young sporophyte, with a single sporangium and adventitious roots!
The vaccine for the sporophyte virus was worth everything to those stranded Starfleet officers, and to simply hand it over was unconscionable.
In all plants higher than the Bryophyta the sporophyte becomes an independently rooted plant and is the conspicuous stage in the life-history.
The independent origin of this conducting system is of great interest for comparison with the vascular system of the sporophyte of the higher plants.
Sometimes she could remember, sometimes there were flashes of brilliance, but sometimes she was lucky to remember the difference between the gametophyte and sporophyte stages of a fern.
The unusual aspect of this Marsilia is that the Sporophyte is not truly aquatic.
And the feature of this Marsilia is that its Sporophyte is not truly aquatic.