Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The larger of two types of spores that give rise to a female gametophyte. Also called macrospore.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Same as macrospore.
Wiktionary
- n. The larger spore of a heterosporous plant, typically producing a female gametophyte
WordNet 3.0
- n. larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte
Etymologies
- mega- + spore (Wiktionary)
Examples
“This one haploid cell, the megaspore, then undergoes three successive mitoses to form the embryo sac, or the female gametopyhte.”
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“The behaviour of the chromosomes in meiosis or reduction division both in the pollen mother-cells and in the megaspore mother-cells which give rise to the so-called embryo-sac are fully described by Gates.”
“Female cone develops two ovules on the upper surface of each cone scale; each ovule contains haploid megaspore.”
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“In the ovules of most sexual flowering plants female gametogenesis is initiated from a single surviving gametic cell, the functional megaspore, formed after meiosis of the somatically derived megaspore mother cell (MMC) 1, 2.”
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Palynology
List of terms used in the study and classification of pollen and spores - both fossil and modern.
tetrad, abporal, ectoaperture, lacuna, grain, spore, lophate, acalymmate, monad, polyad, hexad, calymmate and 513 more...
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