MICROSPOROPHYLL

microsporophyll

(noun) in non-flowering plants, a sporophyll that bears only microsporangia

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

microsporophyll (plural microsporophylls)

a leaflike organ that bears one or more microsporangia (contrast megasporophyll or macrosporophyll)

Source: Wiktionary



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Word of the Day

29 June 2024

INITIALISM

(noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately; “HTML is an initialism for HyperText Markup Language”


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Coffee Trivia

The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.

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