spore case

noun

1. See sporangium
   the nontechnical name for sporangium

spore case

1. See sporangium

Example Sentences

A dry dehiscent fruit composed of more than one carpel; the spore-case of Hepatic, etc.

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Open 4-valved spore-case of a Selaginella, and its four large spores (macrospores), magnified.

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Section of a spore-case containing macrospores, equally magnified; at the right three macrospores more magnified.

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The fructification is an urn-shaped spore-case, in this as in most cases raised on a slender stalk.

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A spore-case from the latter, just bursting by the partial straightening of the incomplete ring; well magnified.

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