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ARCHESPORIUM
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Irregular inflected form: archesporia
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Primitive cell or group of cells from which a mother cell develops
Synonyms:
archespore; archesporium
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("archesporium" is a kind of...):
cell ((biology) the basic structural and functional unit of all organisms; they may exist as independent units of life (as in monads) or may form colonies or tissues as in higher plants and animals)
Derivation:
archesporial (of or relating to the cells in a sporangium that give rise to spores)