Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Sporophyte \Spo"ro*phyte\, n. [Spore + Gr. ? plant.] (Bot.)
   In plants exhibiting alternation of generations, the
   generation which bears asexual spores; -- opposed to
   {gametophyte}. It is not clearly differentiated in the life
   cycle of the lower plants. -- {Spo`ro*phyt"ic}, a.