SPOROPHORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sporophore mean? 

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

1. 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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPOROPHORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

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

Meronyms (parts of "sporophore"):

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