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sporangiophores

sporangiophores is the plural of sporangiophore.

Meaning of sporangiophore

Noun

sporangiophore (plural sporangiophores)

  1. A receptacle in ferns which bears the sporangia, usually a stalk, but sometimes a scale (as in horsetails).
    • The cones of Equisetum are sporangiophores.
  2. A special type of hypha that bears sporangia on the tip.

Questions about sporangiophores

What is sporangiophores the plural of?
Sporangiophores is the plural of sporangiophore.

Words near sporangiophores in the dictionary

  1. sporangiola
  2. sporangiole
  3. sporangioles
  4. sporangiolum
  5. sporangiophore
  6. sporangiophores
  7. sporangiophorous
  8. sporangiospore
  9. sporangiospores
  10. sporangium
  11. sporangiumlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: sporangiophores (page history and authors); sporangiophore (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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