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ARCHESPORIUM

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: archesporia   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops

Synonyms:

archespore; archesporium

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

cell ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals)

Derivation:

archesporial (of or relating to the cells in a sporangium that give rise to spores)

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