English > reproductive structure: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | The parts of a plant involved in its reproduction. |
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| Narrower | agamete | An asexual reproductive cell |
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| anther | The part of the stamen that contains pollen |
| antheridium | The male sex organ of spore-producing plants |
| ascus | saclike structure in which ascospores are formed through sexual reproduction of ascomycetes |
| basidium | A small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections |
| cone, strobilus, strobile | cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bracts |
| endosperm | nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plants |
| flower, bloom, blossom | reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful parts |
| fructification | organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses) |
| fruit | The ripened reproductive body of a seed plant |
| gametangium | cell or organ in which gametes develop |
| gametoecium | gametangia and surrounding bracts |
| gametophore | A modified branch bearing gametangia as in the thalloid liverworts |
| gemma | small asexual reproductive structure in e.g. liverworts and mosses that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individual |
| gleba | fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn |
| hymenium | Spore-bearing layer of cells in certain fungi containing asci or basidia |
| ovary | The organ that bears the ovules of a flower |
| ovule | A small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant |
| pistil | The female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigma |
| placenta | That part of the ovary of a flowering plant where the ovules form |
| placentation | arrangement of the ovules in the placenta and of the placentas in the ovary |
| sorus | cluster of sporangia usually on underside of a fern frond |
| sorus | A spore-producing structure in certain lichens and fungi |
| sporangium, spore case, spore sac | organ containing or producing spores |
| sporocarp, spore case | Specialized leaf branch in certain aquatic ferns that encloses the sori or clusters of sporangia |
| sporophore | A spore-bearing branch or organ |
| stamen | The male reproductive organ of a flower |
| stigma | The apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistil |
| style | (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigma |
| testa, episperm, seed coat | Protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plants |
| Broader | plant organ | A functional and structural unit of a plant or fungus |
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| Spanish | aparato reproductor, estructura reproductiva |
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| Catalan | aparell reproductor, estructura reproductiva |
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