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Microspore vs Microsporophyll - What's the difference?

microspore | microsporophyll |

As nouns the difference between microspore and microsporophyll

is that microspore is (botany) smaller of the two spores produced by plants, compare megaspore while microsporophyll is a leaflike organ that bears one or more microsporangia (contrast megasporophyll).

microspore

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) Smaller of the two spores produced by plants, compare megaspore.

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    * OED2

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    microsporophyll

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • a leaflike organ that bears one or more microsporangia (contrast megasporophyll)
  • *1993 , Taylor, Thomas N. & Edith L. Taylor, The biology and evolution of fossil plants , Prentice-Hall, page 843
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