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MICROSPORE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does microspore mean?
• MICROSPORE (noun)
The noun MICROSPORE has 1 sense:
1. smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in the pollen sac into a male gametophyte
Familiarity information: MICROSPORE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in the pollen sac into a male gametophyte
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("microspore" 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)
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