Spore Sac (Noun)
Meaning
Organ containing or producing spores.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The spore sac of a fern is usually found at the base of the blades and is typically small and brown in color.
- The term comes from the spore sac, also of a fungus, which consists of the capsule that will protect the spores of the fungus inside it.
- This structure can usually be seen as the spore sac in ferns or some algae types, an organ typically small or green in nature.
- Liverworts have spore sacs containing usually one large sporocyte that will divide to give rise to a mass of small, single cells, the spores.
- A spore sac is a component part that contains or produces the spores of the organism that includes the liverworts species or other fern types plants.