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