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sporophytes

sporophytes is the plural of sporophyte.

Meaning of sporophyte

Noun

sporophyte (plural sporophytes)

  1. A plant (or the diploid phase in its life cycle) which produces spores by meiosis in order to produce gametophytes.
    • (b) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base.1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4

Questions about sporophytes

What is sporophytes the plural of?
Sporophytes is the plural of sporophyte.

Words near sporophytes in the dictionary

  1. sporophyllic
  2. sporophyllous
  3. sporophylls
  4. sporophyls
  5. sporophyte
  6. sporophytes
  7. sporophytic
  8. sporophytically
  9. sporoplasm
  10. sporoplasmogenic
  11. sporoplasms

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