megaspore in English
noun
1
the larger of the two kinds of spores produced by some ferns.
Both of these genera are heterosporous, meaning that each species produces two distinctly different types of spores: microspores and megaspores .
noun
macrospore
Use "megaspore" in a sentence
Below are sample sentences containing the word "megaspore" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "megaspore", or refer to the context using the word "megaspore" in the English Dictionary.
1. Non-recurrent Apomixis: Plants that undergo Nonrecurrent Apomixis have a megaspore mother cell that form a haploid
2. In this type of Agamospermy, a diploid embryosac is formed either from the diploid nucellar cells (a phenomenon called apospory, e.g., citrus, mango, prickly pear etc.) or from the diploid megaspore mother cell (a phenomenon called diplospory, e.g