Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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}.

Resurrection \Res`ur*rec"tion\, n. [F. r['e]surrection, L.
   resurrectio, fr. resurgere, resurrectum, to rise again; pref.
   re- re- + surgere to rise. See {Source}.]
   1. A rising again; the resumption of vigor.

   2. Especially, the rising again from the dead; the resumption
      of life by the dead; as, the resurrection of Jesus Christ;
      the general resurrection of all the dead at the Day of
      Judgment.

            Nor after resurrection shall he stay Longer on
            earth.                                --Milton.

   3. State of being risen from the dead; future state.

            In the resurrection they neither marry nor are given
            in marriage.                          --Matt. xxii.
                                                  30.

   4. The cause or exemplar of a rising from the dead.

            I am the resurrection, and the life.  --John xi. 25.

   {Cross of the resurrection}, a slender cross with a pennant
      floating from the junction of the bars.

   {Resurrection plant} (Bot.), a name given to several species
      of {Selaginella} (as {S. convoluta} and {S.
      lepidophylla}), flowerless plants which, when dry, close
      up so as to resemble a bird's nest, but revive and expand
      again when moistened. The name is sometimes also given to
      the rose of Jericho. See under {Rose}.

Selaginella \Sel`a*gi*nel"la\, n. [NL., fr. L. selago, -inis, a
   kind of plant.] (Bot.)
   A genus of cryptogamous plants resembling Lycopodia, but
   producing two kinds of spores; also, any plant of this genus.
   Many species are cultivated in conservatories.

Source : WordNet®

Selaginella
     n : type and sole genus of the Selaginellaceae; evergreen
         mosslike plants: spike moss and little club moss [syn: {genus
         Selaginella}]