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spore-bearing

spore-bearing

1 7.2
Having parts that make tiny cells to reproduce instead of seeds
  • adjective
  • /ˈspɔrˌbɛrɪŋ/
  • Specialized
translation icon : portador de esporas
  • Underside of spore-bearing leaflets of the Old World climbing fern. Some leaflets produce spores; others don't.
  • spore-bearing plants
  • spore-bearing leaflets

Examples

  • The scouring rush, a spore-bearing plant with jointed, leafless stems, is also common.

  • Entomologist Robert Pemberton examines a spore-bearing leaflet of the Old World climbing fern.

    Academic text (2000)

  • Spore-bearing plants in this habitat include two kinds of spore-bearing clubmosses and interrupted fern.

  • A mushroom is the fleshy, aboveground, spore-bearing part of a fungus, which grows mostly underground.

Synonyms

sporogenous
vsspore-bearing
  • Specialized
9.9

Producing spores that plants or fungi use to reproduce

applies to whole plants, fungi, or microorganisms that have spores instead of seeds

Surface Forms

spore-bearing positive

Morphology

spore-bearing = bear (transparent) = spore + bear + ing

The suffix '-ing' is a standard English suffix used to form present participles.

Etymology

Spore-bearing comes from spore, a word for a very small 'seed', and bearing, meaning 'carrying'. So a spore-bearing plant or fungus carries or makes those tiny seed-like parts instead of seeds.