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archesporial

archesporial adjective: relating to the archesporia, cells of the sporangium that give rise to spores.

Adjective

archesporial (not comparable)

  1. Relating to the archesporia, cells of the sporangium that give rise to spores.
    • However, nuclear events in meiotic cells are readily distinguishable from those in mitotic cells, and the developmental program of archesporial cells and meiocytes is independent of successive somatic cell development, at least for the progression into prophase I.2015 September 23, “Global Identification of Genes Specific for Rice Meiosis”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of archesporial

From archesporium + -al.

Words formed from archesporial

Questions about archesporial

What does archesporial mean?
Archesporial means relating to the archesporia, cells of the sporangium that give rise to spores.
What part of speech is archesporial?
Archesporial is an adjective.

Words near archesporial in the dictionary

  1. Arches paper
  2. Arches papers
  3. archespore
  4. archespores
  5. archesporia
  6. archesporial
  7. archesporium
  8. archest
  9. archet
  10. archeth
  11. archetier

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