"Sporophore" is a word in ENGLISH
That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous
plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but
produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant,
in mosses the capsule. Cf. Oophore.
A placenta.
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It was a particularly tough football game, and nerves were on edge. The home team had been the victim of three or four close calls, and they were now trailing the visitors by a touch-down and a field goal. When the official called yet another close one in the visitors' favor, the home quarterback blew his top.How many times can you do this to us in a single game?" he screamed. "You were wrong on the out-of-bounds, you were wrong on that last first down, and you missed an illegal tackle in the first quarter." The official just stared. The quarterback seethed, but he suppressed the language that might get him tossed from the game. "What it comes down to," he bellowed, "is that you STINK!" The official stared a few more seconds. Then he bent down, picked up the ball, paced off 15 yards, and put the ball down. He turned to face the steaming quarterback. The official finally replied, "And how do I smell from here?"
Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.
Read the complete definitionThe spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.
Read the complete definitionAn alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and …
Read the complete definitionA slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or …
Read the complete definitionA class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia.
Read the complete definitionDesignating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants from …
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