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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A multicellular, often flask-shaped, egg-producing organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. The pistillidium or female organ of the higher cryptogams, having the same function as the pistil in flowering plants. It is a cellular sac, containing at the bottom a cell, analogous to the embryo-sac of phænogamous plants, which is impregnated by spermatozoöids from the male organ (antheridium). From this, after fertilization, the new plant is produced directly, as in the ferns and their allies, or a spore-case is developed, as in the mosses, when new plants follow upon the germination of the spores.

Wiktionary

  1. n. botany A multicellular reproductive structure that contains a large, non-motile gamete (egg cell), and within which an embryo will develop.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. (Bot.) The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. a female sex organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms

Etymologies

  1. New Latin, from Greek arkhegonos, original : arkhe-, arkhi-, archi- + gonos, offspring; see genə- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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