SPOROPHORE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A spore-bearing branch or organ: the part of the thallus of a sporophyte that develops spores; in ferns and mosses and liverworts is practically equivalent to the sporophyte

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sporophore" is a kind of...):

reproductive structure (the parts of a plant involved in its reproduction)

Meronyms (parts of "sporophore"):

gleba (fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhorn)

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