Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun microspore

1 sense of microspore

Sense 1
microspore -- (smaller of the two types of spore produced in heterosporous plants; develops in the pollen sac into a male gametophyte)
       => spore -- (a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion; "a sexual spore is formed after the fusion of gametes")