sporogenous

[spuh-roj-uh-nuhs]

adjective

1. of or relating to spores or spore production.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sporogenous¹

First recorded in 1885–90; sporo- + -genous

Example Sentences

The chief distinctive characters of the sporogenous hyphae are their orientation, usually vertical; their limited apical growth; their peculiar branching, form, colour, contents, consistency; and their spore-production.

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The cells which will produce the sporogenous tissue are shaded.

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Other series of modifications arise in which the tissues corresponding to the stroma invest the sporogenous hyphal ends, and thus enclose the spores, asci, basidia, &c., in a cavity.

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The series of increasingly complex sporogonia among Bryophytes appears to be most naturally explained on an hypothesis of progressive sterilization of sporogenous tissue, such as has been advanced by Bower.

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Related Words

• ancestral 
• hereditary 
• historical