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- noun Plural form of
sporophyte .
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Examples
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“Look at those finely articulated sporophytes over there.”
Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010
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“Look at those finely articulated sporophytes over there.”
Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010
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“Look at those finely articulated sporophytes over there.”
Delta Anomaly Rick Barba 2010
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When I kneel down on the wet ground, I can see sporophytes protruding from moss, the result of sexual reproduction.
Archive 2008-04-01 e 2008
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Thick cycads, ferns, sporophytes and horsetails grew to the waterline, dipping graceful fronds into the slightly salty tideflow.
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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Thick cycads, ferns, sporophytes and horsetails grew to the waterline, dipping graceful fronds into the slightly salty tideflow.
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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Thick cycads, ferns, sporophytes and horsetails grew to the waterline, dipping graceful fronds into the slightly salty tideflow.
Bloodhype Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1973
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Their parts are so exquisitely perfect, almost they persuade the nature-lover to degenerate into a mere naturalist, walking through the woods seeing nothing but sporophytes through his lens, just as a rare book sometimes causes the bibliophile to become a bibliomaniac, reading nothing but catalogues.
Some Winter Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905
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For example, the largest, fastest growing species in Phaeophyceae, macrocystis pyrifera, starts when spore producing sporophytes kind of the plant produce spores which are either female or male gametophytes.
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Conifers are sporophytes (produce spores) and produce both male and female cones on its tree.
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