Microspore \Mi"cro*spore\, 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}.
microspore
n : smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous
plants; develops in the pollen sac into a male
gametophyte