Word Meanings - SPORANGIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A spore case in the cryptogamous plants, as in ferns, etc.
Related words: (words related to SPORANGIUM)
- SPORE
One of the minute grains in flowerless plants, which are analogous to seeds, as serving to reproduce the species. Note: Spores are produced differently in the different classes of cryptogamous plants, and as regards their nature are often so unlike - PHAEOSPORE
A brownish zoöspore, characteristic of an order of dark green or olive-colored algæ. -- Phæ`o*spor"ic, a. - EPISPORE
The thickish outer coat of certain spores. - DIASPORE
A hydrate of alumina, often occurring in white lamellar masses with brilliant pearly luster; -- so named on account of its decrepitating when heated before the blowpipe. - EXOSPORE
The extreme outer wall of a spore; the epispore. - ACROSPORE
A spore borne at the extremity of the cells of fructification in fungi. - TELEUTOSPORE
The thick-celled winter or resting spore of the rusts (order Uredinales), produced in late summer. See Illust. of Uredospore. - SPHAEROSPORE
One of the nonsexual spores found in red algæ; a tetraspore. - ARTHROSPORE
A bacterial resting cell, -- formerly considered a spore, but now known to occur even in endosporous bacteria. -- Ar`thro*spor"ic , Ar*thros"po*rous , a. - ISOSPORE
One of the spores produced by an isosporous organism. A zygospore. - MACROSPORE
One of the specially large spores of certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella, etc. - TETRASPORE
A nonsexual spore, one of a group of four regularly occurring in red seaweeds. -- Tet`ra*spor"ic, a. - SWARMSPORE
One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algæ and fungi; a zoöspore. - MICROZOOSPORE; MICROZOOESPORE
A small motile spore furnished with two vibratile cilia, found in certain green algæ. - CRYPTOGAMIAN; CRYPTOGAMIC; CRYPTOGAMOUS
Of or pertaining to the series Cryptogamia, or to plants of that series. (more info) Cryp*to"gam*ous a. - PSEUDOSPORE
A peculiar reproductive cell found in some fungi. - PERISPORE
The outer covering of a spore. - ASCOSPORE
One of the spores contained in the asci of lichens and fungi. - ENDOSPORE
The thin inner coat of certain spores. - SPERMATOSPORE
See SPERMOSPORE - UNDERSPORE
To raise with a spar, or piece of wood, used as a lever. Give me a staff that I may underspore. Chaucer.