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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. specialized leaf branch in certain aquatic ferns that encloses the sori or clusters of sporangia;
[syn: sporocarp, spore case]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Sporocarp \Spo"ro*carp\ (sp[=o]"r[-o]*k[aum]rp), n. [Spore + Gr. ? fruit.] (Bot.) (a) A closed body or conceptacle containing one or more masses of spores or sporangia. (b) A sporangium. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

sporocarp n 1: specialized leaf branch in certain aquatic ferns that encloses the sori or clusters of sporangia [syn: sporocarp, spore case]