NOUN
- the male sex organ of spore-producing plants; produces antherozoids; equivalent to the anther in flowers
How To Use antheridium In A Sentence
- In both cases the prothallium is small, and often scarcely protrudes beyond the spore, and may be reduced to a single archegonium or antheridium (Fig. 71, _B_, _C_) with only one or two cells representing the vegetative cells of the prothallium (_v_). Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
- At maturity, the antheridium bursts releasing the sperm cells or antherozoids.
- The other branch (antheridium) grows up in close contact with the archicarp, and like it is shut off by a partition from its filament. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
- The antheridium undergoes no further change, but the archicarp soon divides into two cells, -- a small basal one and a larger upper cell. Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses
