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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. In botany, having sporangia formed from a single epidermal cell, as in the true ferns and in the Salviniaceæ and Marsileaceæ. Compare eusporangiate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. (of ferns) having each sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell

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  • “By comparing four fern cp genome sequences it was confirmed that two major rearrangements distinguish higher leptosporangiate ferns from basal fern lineages.”

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. eusporangiate
  2. leptosporangium
  1. polypodiales
  2. schizaea
  1. filicales
  2. genus gleichenia
  1. genus schizaea
  2. gleichenia
  1. order filicales
  2. order polypodiales
  1. Marsileaceae
  2. cyatheaceæ
  1. matoniaceæ

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