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Microspore

Microspore Meaning & Definition
Microspore Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Microspore?

[n] smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in the pollen sac into a male gametophyte

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Microspore In Webster's Dictionary

\Mi"cro*spore\, n. [Micro- + spore.] (Bot.) One of the exceedingly minute spores found in certain flowerless plants, as {Selaginella} and {Isoetes}, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. {Macrospore}.

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