NOUN | plant | megaspore, macrospore | larger / larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants |
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Meaning | larger / larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte. | |
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Synonym | macrospore | |
Broader | spore | A small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion |
Spanish | macrospora, macróspora, macrospore, megaspora | |
Catalan | macròspora, macrospore, megaspora, megàspora |
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