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androsporangium

androsporangium noun: a sporangium for androspores.

Noun

androsporangium (plural androsporangia)

  1. A sporangium for androspores.
    • The androsporangia produce the androspores which are special kinds of zoospores and give rise to the “dwarf males” as in Œdogonium.1889, Wm. Narramore, “Fresh Water Algæ: Œdogoniaceæ”, in The Wesley Naturalist. Monthly Journal of the Wesley Scientific Society., volume II, London: T. Woolmer, page 279
    • The androsporangium is usually produced in the neighbourhood of an oogonium and becomes the mother-cell of a motile ciliated spore known as an androspore, intermediate in size between an antherozoid and a zoogonidium.1904, George Stephen West, A Treatise on the British Freshwater Algae, page 61

Forms of androsporangium

pluralandrosporangia

Origin of androsporangium

From New Latin, from andro- + sporangium.

Questions about androsporangium

What does androsporangium mean?
Androsporangium means a sporangium for androspores.
What part of speech is androsporangium?
Androsporangium is a noun.
What is the plural of androsporangium?
The plural of androsporangium is androsporangia.

Words near androsporangium in the dictionary

  1. androsphere
  2. androsphinges
  3. androsphinx
  4. androsphinxes
  5. androsporangia
  6. androsporangium
  7. androspore
  8. androspores
  9. androstadiene
  10. androstadienedione
  11. androstadienes

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