noun Botany.
- the larger of the two kinds of spores characteristically produced by seed plants and a few fern allies, developing into a female gametophyte.Compare microspore.
- the embryo sac of a flowering plant.
noun
- Also called: macrospore the larger of the two types of spore produced by some spore-bearing plants, which develops into the female gametophyteCompare microspore (def. 1)
- the cell in flowering plants that gives rise to the embryo sac
n.1857, from mega- + spore.
- One of the two types of haploid spores produced by a heterosporous plant. Megaspores develop into female gametophytes and are usually larger than microspores.