sori
Americannoun
noun
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Inside the sori, spores are produced by meiosis and released into the air.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
They are distinguished by large leaves called fronds and small sporangia-containing structures called sori, which are found on the underside of the fronds.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
The photo shows small bumps called sori on the underside of a fern frond.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015
Sporangia borne on elevated receptacles, forming roundish sori imperfectly covered by very delicate hood-shaped indusia attached to the base of the receptacles.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Gray, Asa
Polypodium, pol-i-pō′di-um, n. a genus of ferns with spore-cases on the back of the frond, distinct, ring-shaped, in roundish sori, destitute of indusium.—n.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 3 of 4: N-R) by Various
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