ARCHESPORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does archespore mean? 

• ARCHESPORE (noun)
  The noun ARCHESPORE has 1 sense:

1. primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops

  Familiarity information: ARCHESPORE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARCHESPORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

archespore; archesporium

Hypernyms ("archespore" is a kind of...):

cell ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals)

Derivation:

archesporial (of or relating to the cells in a sporangium that give rise to spores)