Archegonium

Archegonium

A multicellular female reproductive organ in mosses, ferns, and the majority of gymnosperms. Normally flask-shaped, it corresponds to the pistil in flowering plants.

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archegonium

Biology; Ecology

A multicellular female reproductive organ in mosses, ferns, and the majority of gymnosperms. Normally flask-shaped, it corresponds to the pistil in flowering plants.

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The organ on a gametophyte plant which produces the egg cell, and nurtures the young sporophyte.

archegonium

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The flask-shaped female reproductive organs on the prothallium in the higher cryptogams corresponding to a pistil in the flowering plants and containing the egg which becomes the ...

archegonium

Language; Dictionaries

The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.

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