sporophyte
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From sporo- (“spore”) + -phyte (“plant”).
Noun
[edit]sporophyte (plural sporophytes)
- (botany) A plant (or the diploid phase in its life cycle) which produces spores by meiosis in order to produce gametophytes.
- 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page 4:
- (b) sporophyte with foot reduced, the entire sporophyte enveloped by the calyptra, which is ± stipitate at the base.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]plant which produces spores by meiosis in order to produce gametophytes
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See also
[edit]French
[edit]Noun
[edit]sporophyte f (plural sporophytes)
Further reading
[edit]- “sporophyte”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.