Heterosporous

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Producing two types of spores differing in size and sex.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Producing both male and female gametophytes.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Having more than one kind of asexually produced spores: applied to the vascular cryptogams, which have macrospores or megaspores (female spores) homologous with the embryo-sac of phanerogams, and microspores (male spores) homologous with the pollen-grains of phanerogams.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. characterized by heterospory
  • Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    prosperous