"androsporangium" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "New Latin, from andro- + sporangium.",
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          "ref": "1889, Wm. Narramore, “Fresh Water Algæ: Œdogoniaceæ”, in The Wesley Naturalist. Monthly Journal of the Wesley Scientific Society., volume II, London: T. Woolmer, page 279",
          "text": "The androsporangia produce the androspores which are special kinds of zoospores and give rise to the “dwarf males” as in Œdogonium.",
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          "ref": "1904, George Stephen West, A Treatise on the British Freshwater Algae, page 61",
          "text": "The androsporangium is usually produced in the neighbourhood of an oogonium and becomes the mother-cell of a motile ciliated spore known as an androspore, intermediate in size between an antherozoid and a zoogonidium.",
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          "ref": "2010, N K Soni, Vandana Soni, Fundamentals of Botany, volume 1, Tata McGraw Hill Education Private Limited, page 67",
          "text": "The androsporangia are formed in a series by the repeated transverse division of any vegetative cell of a large filament. The contents of each androsporangium are metamorphosed into a single androspore.",
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