REPRODUCTIVE STRUCTURE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reproductive structure mean? 

• REPRODUCTIVE STRUCTURE (noun)
  The noun REPRODUCTIVE STRUCTURE has 1 sense:

1. the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction

  Familiarity information: REPRODUCTIVE STRUCTURE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPRODUCTIVE STRUCTURE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The parts of a plant involved in its reproduction

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("reproductive structure" is a kind of...):

plant organ (a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "reproductive structure"):

episperm; seed coat; testa (protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants)

fruit (the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant)

sorus (a spore-producing structure in certain lichens and fungi)

sorus (cluster of sporangia usually on underside of a fern frond)

gametophore (a modified branch bearing gametangia as in the thalloid liverworts)

gametoecium (gametangia and surrounding bracts)

gametangium (cell or organ in which gametes develop)

sporophore (a spore-bearing branch or organ: the part of the thallus of a sporophyte that develops spores; in ferns and mosses and liverworts is practically equivalent to the sporophyte)

ascus (saclike structure in which ascospores are formed through sexual reproduction of ascomycetes)

sporangium; spore case; spore sac (organ containing or producing spores)

antheridium (the male sex organ of spore-producing plants; produces antherozoids; equivalent to the anther in flowers)

basidium (a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetes)

cone; strobile; strobilus (cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts)

gemma (small asexual reproductive structure in e.g. liverworts and mosses that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individual)

endosperm (nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants)

agamete (an asexual reproductive cell)

placentation (arrangement of the ovules in the placenta and of the placentas in the ovary)

placenta (that part of the ovary of a flowering plant where the ovules form)

ovule (a small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant; develops into a seed after fertilization)

ovary (the organ that bears the ovules of a flower)

stigma (the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil)

style ((botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma)

pistil (the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma)

anther (the part of the stamen that contains pollen; usually borne on a stalk)

stamen (the male reproductive organ of a flower)

bloom; blossom; flower (reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts)

spore case; sporocarp (specialized leaf branch in certain aquatic ferns that encloses the sori or clusters of sporangia)

hymenium (spore-bearing layer of cells in certain fungi containing asci or basidia)

gleba (fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn)

fructification (organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses))

 Context examples 

The reproductive structure of a tree or other plant, consisting of at least one pistil or stamen, and often including petals and sepals.

(Flower, Food and Drug Administration)