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sporophyte (iou)



sporophyte noun. L19.
[from SPORO- + -PHYTE.]
Botany. In the alternation of generations: the asexual, usu. diploid phase in the life cycle of a plant (the dominant form in vascular plants but in bryophytes dependent on the gametophyte) which produces the spores from which the gametophyte arises. Cf. GAMETOPHYTE.
sporophytic adjective pertaining to or of the nature of a sporophyte L19.
sporo'phytically adverb L20.