sporangium
noun
the case or sac in which spores are produced.
sporangial
-
a word derived from
sporangium.
Example Sentences
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This, I would learn, was the sporangial form of a slime mold.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2020
Capillitium proceeding from the inner surface of the sporangial wall, forming a complicated network, the threads extremely variable in thickness, minutely warted and spinulose.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
At the time of sporangial formation the protoplasm with numerous nuclei streams into the swollen end of the sporangiophore and there becomes cut off by a cell-wall to form the sporangium.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
Capillitium of long and very slender tubules, proceeding from numerous points of the sporangial wall, loosely branched, forming no evident network, the surface minutely warted or spinulose.
From The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio by A. P. (Andrew Price) Morgan
Some of the cells enlarged, and then forming either vesicular empty cells or densely filled sporangial cells.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883 by Various
