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Megaspore

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Noun

1. macrospore, megaspore

larger of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in ovule into a female gametophyte

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Megaspore

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noun
1. Also called: macrospore
the larger of the two types of spore produced by some spore-bearing plants, which develops into the female gametophyte
Compare microspore (sense 1)
2. 
the cell in flowering plants that gives rise to the embryo sac

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Megaspore

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noun
a haploid spore, usually larger than a microspore of the same plant, which gives rise to a female gametophyte: found in all vascular plants that have differentiated sexes in the gametophyte

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Megaspore

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n.
A spore that gives rise to a female gametophyte and is larger than a microspore.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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