Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants;
develops in the pollen sac into a male gametophyte;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Microspore \Mi"cro*spore\ (m[imac]"kr[-o]*sp[=o]r), n. [Micro- +
spore.] (Bot.)
One of the exceedingly minute spores found in certain
flowerless plants, as Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear
two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other.
Cf. Macrospore.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
microspore
n 1: smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous
plants; develops in the pollen sac into a male gametophyte