SPOROPHYL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sporophyl mean? 

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

1. leaf in ferns and mosses that bears the sporangia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SPOROPHYL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Leaf in ferns and mosses that bears the sporangia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

sporophyl; sporophyll

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

foliage; leaf; leafage (the main organ of photosynthesis and transpiration in higher plants)

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

megasporophyll (in non-flowering plants, a sporophyll that bears only megasporangia)

microsporophyll (in non-flowering plants, a sporophyll that bears only microsporangia)