Definitions for sporangium

sporangium spo·ran·gi·um

Spelling: [spuh-ran-jee-uh m]
IPA: /spəˈræn dʒi əm/

Sporangium is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 20 points.

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Definitions for sporangium

noun

  1. the case or sac in which spores are produced.

Origin of sporangium

1815-25; New Latin, equivalent to spor- spor- + Greek angeîon vessel

Examples for sporangium

A distinctive feature is the incomplete annulus of the sporangium.

In fact, the structure of the sporangium is unique among the Myxomycetes.

The stipe is very short, and the columella runs as a straight, gradually diminishing axis to the very apex of the sporangium.

Associated with the spores in the sporangium occurs the capillitium.

Specimens from Kansas referred here have the stipe pale, rugose, long, about twice the sporangium; habitat bark.

The dark red granules of the sporangium walls are abundant and appear to form a continuous crust.

sporangium wall rough with blunt spine-like processes, otherwise as Diderma.

The wall of the sporangium is exactly like that of certain species of Diderma.

The cysts, then, belong morphologically to the peridium or sporangium wall.

The manner in which the spores originate in the sporangium calls for comment.

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