different between sporophyte vs calyptra
sporophyte
English
Etymology
From sporo- (“spore”) +? -phyte (“plant”).
Noun
sporophyte (plural sporophytes)
- (botany) A plant (or the diploid phase in its life cycle) which produces spores by meiosis in order to produce gametophytes.
Related terms
- megasporophyte
- sporangium
- spore
- sporogenesis
- sporophytic
Translations
See also
- gametophyte
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calyptra
English
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ???????? (kalúptra, “covering or veiling”).
Noun
calyptra (plural calyptras or calyptrae)
- (botany) In bryophytes, a thin, hood of tissue that forms from the archegonium and covers the developing sporophyte and is shed as it ripens.
- (botany) any cap-like covering of a flower or fruit, such as the operculum over the unopened buds of Eucalyptus flowers
- (botany) Any of various coverings at the tips of structures, in the terminology of various authors; for example rootcaps and the apical cells of trichomes.
- (entomology) In flies such as the housefly, Musca, in the taxonomic order Diptera, zoological section Schizophora, subsection Calyptrata, the calyptra is a membranous rearward extension of the forewing; it covers the haltere.
Translations
References
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????????? (kalúptr?).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ka?lyp.tra/, [kä?l?pt??ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka?lip.tra/, [k??lipt???]
Noun
calyptra f (genitive calyptrae); first declension
- A kind of veil used by women
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- calyptra in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- calyptra in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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