| NOUN | plant | microspore | smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants |
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| Meaning | smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in the pollen sac into a male gametophyte. | |
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| 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 | microspora, micróspora | |
| Catalan | micròspora | |
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