Definition of Heterosporic. Meaning of Heterosporic. Synonyms of Heterosporic

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Definition of Heterosporic

Heterosporic
Heterosporic Het`er*o*spor"ic, Heterosporous Het`er*o*spor"ous, a. [Hetero- + spore.] (Bot.) Producing two kinds of spores unlike each other.

Meaning of Heterosporic from wikipedia

- they germinate. Microsporangia occur in all vascular plants that have heterosporic life cycles, such as seed plants, spike mosses and the aquatic fern genus...
- seem to be one of the many precursors to seed plants and the ovary. Heterosporic plants that produce seeds are their most successful and widespread descendants...
- plants which are at once heteromorphic, sporophytic, oogametic, dioicous, heterosporic and dioecious, such as in a willow tree (as most species of the genus...
- fertilized endospore as sporophyte tissue. Some believe it is neither. In heterosporic plants, there are two distinct kinds of gametophytes. Because the two...
- an egg to produce an embryo, which would germinate into a sporophyte. Heterosporic plants, as their name suggests, bear spores of two sizes – microspores...