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ARCHEGONIA [6 records]

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Record 1 2012-07-17

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
DEF

A multicellular, egg-producing, female organ in which the embryo develops after fertilization.

OBS

archegonia : plural.

Key term(s)
  • archegonia

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
DEF

Organe femelle en forme de bouteille qui, chez les cryptogames vasculaires et les muscinées, renferme l'oosphère.

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
  • Mosses and Related Plants
CONT

Mosses are either dioicous, i.e., bearing androecia and gynoecia on separate gametophytes, or monoicous, bearing both sexes on a single gametophyte.

OBS

There are several different kinds of monoicous arrangements, depending on the relative positions of the antheridia and archegonia.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
  • Mousses et plantes apparentées
DEF

Se dit d'une espèce dont les anthéridies et les archégones se trouvent sur lemême individu.

OBS

Les plantes autoïques, synoïques, paroïques et polyoïques sont toutes monoïques.

Spanish

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Record 3 2012-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
  • Mosses and Related Plants
CONT

In autoicous arrangements, there are separate androecia and gynoecia on the same plant, often on separate branches(cladautoicous), while in both synoicous and paroicous arrangements antheridia and archegonia occur in a single inflorescence, either intermixed within the same cluster(synoicous), or in separate clusters in different leaf axils(paroicous).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
  • Mousses et plantes apparentées
DEF

[Se dit d'une espèce dont les] anthéridies et [les] archégones [sont] dans la même inflorescence mais non mêlés, les anthéridies se trouvant à l’aisselle des feuilles périchétiales les plus hautes.

Spanish

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Record 4 2012-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
  • Mosses and Related Plants
CONT

In autoicous arrangements, there are separate androecia and gynoecia on the same plant, often on separate branches(cladautoicous), while in both synoicous and paroicous arrangements antheridia and archegonia occur in a single inflorescence, either intermixed within the same cluster(synoicous), or in separate clusters in different leaf axils(paroicous).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
  • Mousses et plantes apparentées
DEF

Se dit d'une espèce monoïque, dont l’inflorescence mâle se trouve sur un rameau différent de l'inflorescence femelle.

Spanish

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Record 5 2012-06-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant Biology
  • Botany
  • Mosses and Related Plants
CONT

There are several different kinds of monoicous arrangements, depending on the relative positions of the antheridia and archegonia. In autoicous arrangements, there are separate androecia and gynoecia on the same plant, often on separate branches(cladautoicous), while in both synoicous and paroicous arrangements antheridia and archegonia occur in a single inflorescence, either intermixed within the same cluster(synoicous), or in separate clusters in different leaf axils(paroicous).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Biologie végétale
  • Botanique
  • Mousses et plantes apparentées
OBS

[Se dit d'une espèce dont les] anthéridies et les archégones sont mêlés dans un même réceptacle.

Spanish

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Record 6 1978-02-25

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
  • Geology
  • Botany
OBS

Having stems terminated by female organs, denoting those forms in which the growth of a shoot is terminated by the appearance of archegonia which are formed near the apical cell or from the apical cell itself.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
  • Géologie
  • Botanique
OBS

[...] hépatique chez laquelle les archégones proviennent de la transformation d'une cellule apicale, ce qui arrête la croissance.

OBS

[...] [hépatique] dont les archégones sont situés sur les rameaux principaux.

Spanish

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