Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, an asexually produced spore of large size as compared with others belonging to the same species.
- noun In zoology, one of the spore-like elements, few in number, but of relatively large size, into which the bodies of many monads become subdivided. Also
megaspore .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) One of the specially large spores of certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella, etc.
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- noun One of the specially
large spores of certainflowerless plants , as Selaginella, etc.
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- noun larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte
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Examples
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In the full-grown ovule the macrospore, which in the seed plants is generally known as the "embryo sac," is completely filled with the prothallium or "endosperm."
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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But the formation of the macrospore or embryo-sac is simpler than the corresponding process in cryptogams.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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When we compare the embryo sac (macrospore) of the angiosperms with that of the gymnosperms a great difference is noticed, there being much more difference than between the latter and the higher pteridophytes.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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_G_, section of a full-grown macrosporangium (ovule), × 25: i, ii, the two integuments. _sp. _ macrospore (embryo sac).
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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(Fig. 79, _A_, _E_), the embryo sac or macrospore.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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The single macrospore (_sp. _) is very large and does not lie free in the cavity of the sporangium, but is in close contact with its wall.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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_Casuarina_ and others, instead of a single macrospore a more or less extensive sporogenous tissue is formed, but only one cell proceeds to the formation of a functional female cell.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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The nucellus is a cellular tissue enveloping one large cell, the embryo-sac or macrospore.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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The germination of the macrospore consists in the repeated division of its nucleus to form two groups of four, one group at each end of the embryo-sac.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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The macrospore divides into two cells, a large lower one, and a smaller upper one.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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