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Meaning of ARCHEGONIUM

Pronunciation:  `ârku'gowneeum

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WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  a female sex organ occurring in mosses, ferns, and most gymnosperms
 
 See Also: plant organ

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ar`che*go"ni*um\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? the first of a
race.] (Bot.)
The pistillidium or female organ in the higher cryptogamic
plants, corresponding to the pistil in flowering plants.
 
Biology Dictionary
 
 Definition: The structure on the pteridophyte prothallus that produces the sessile female gametes. Compare antheridium.
 



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