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Meaning of MACROSPORE

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Mac"ro*spore\, n. [Macro- + spore.] (Bot.)
One of the specially large spores of certain flowerless
plants, as {Selaginella}, etc.
 
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Biology Dictionary
 
 Definition: The larger of the two kinds of spores produced in the sexual life cycle of a heterosporous plant, giving rise to the female gametophyte.
 

 

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