reproductive structure

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reproductive structure - the parts of a plant involved in its reproductionagamete - an asexual reproductive cellfructification - organs of fruiting (especially the reproductive parts of ferns and mosses)gleba - fleshy spore-bearing inner mass of e.g. a puffball or stinkhornhymenium - spore-bearing layer of cells in certain fungi containing asci or basidiasporocarp, spore case - specialized leaf branch in certain aquatic ferns that encloses the sori or clusters of sporangiablossom, flower, bloom - reproductive organ of angiosperm plants especially one having showy or colorful partsstamen - the male reproductive organ of a floweranther - the part of the stamen that contains pollen; usually borne on a stalkpistil - the female ovule-bearing part of a flower composed of ovary and style and stigmastyle - (botany) the narrow elongated part of the pistil between the ovary and the stigmastigma - the apical end of the style where deposited pollen enters the pistilovary - the organ that bears the ovules of a flowerovule - a small body that contains the female germ cell of a plant; develops into a seed after fertilizationplacenta - that part of the ovary of a flowering plant where the ovules formplacentation - arrangement of the ovules in the placenta and of the placentas in the ovaryepisperm, seed coat, testa - protective outer layer of seeds of flowering plantsendosperm - nutritive tissue surrounding the embryo within seeds of flowering plantsgemma - small asexual reproductive structure in e.g. liverworts and mosses that detaches from the parent and develops into a new individualstrobile, strobilus, cone - cone-shaped mass of ovule- or spore-bearing scales or bractsbasidium - a small club-shaped structure typically bearing four basidiospores at the ends of minute projections; unique to basidiomycetesplant organ - a functional and structural unit of a plant or fungusantheridium - the male sex organ of spore-producing plants; produces antherozoids; equivalent to the anther in flowerssporangium, spore case, spore sac - organ containing or producing sporesascus - saclike structure in which ascospores are formed through sexual reproduction of ascomycetessporophore - a spore-bearing branch or organ: the part of the thallus of a sporophyte that develops spores; in ferns and mosses and liverworts is practically equivalent to the sporophytegametangium - cell or organ in which gametes developgametoecium - gametangia and surrounding bractsgametophore - a modified branch bearing gametangia as in the thalloid liverwortssorus - cluster of sporangia usually on underside of a fern frondsorus - a spore-producing structure in certain lichens and fungifruit - the ripened reproductive body of a seed plant