MEGASPORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does megaspore mean? 

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

1. larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MEGASPORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

macrospore; megaspore

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

spore (a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion)