SPORANGIUM (sporangia)

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: sporangia   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does sporangium mean? 

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

1. organ containing or producing spores

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPORANGIUM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Organ containing or producing spores

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

sporangium; spore case; spore sac

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

reproductive structure (the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction)

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

macrosporangium; megasporangium (a plant structure that produces megaspores)

microsporangium (a plant structure that produces microspores)

eusporangium (a sporangium that arises from a group of epidermal cells)

leptosporangium (a sporangium formed from a single epidermal cell; characteristic of the Filicales or of almost all modern ferns)

tetrasporangium (a sporangium containing four asexual spores)

 Context examples 

This species is motile, catalase positive, indole negative, reduces nitrate, hydrolyzes casein and gelatin, but not starch or urea and forms spores with a distinct canoe shaped body that is attached to the side of the spore in a lateral position within the sporangium.

(Brevibacillus laterosporus, NCI Thesaurus)