megaspore

megaspore
megasporic /meg'euh spawr"ik, -spor"-/, adj.
/meg"euh spawr', -spohr'/, n. Bot.
1. the larger of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and a few fern allies, developing into a female gametophyte. Cf. microspore.
2. the embryo sac of a flowering plant.
Also called macrospore.
[1885-90; MEGA- + SPORE]

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