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Tending, or pertaining, to reproduction; employed in reproduction. Lyell.

The male reproductive apparatus in the lower, consisting of a cell or other cavity in which spermatozoids are produced; -- called also spermary. -- An`ther*id"i*al, a.

One of the mobile male reproductive bodies in the antheridia of cryptogams.

A small membranous bladder or tube in which are inclosed the seedlike reproductive particles or sporules of lichens and certain fungi.

numerous joints or segments, each of which may contain a complete set of male and female reproductive organs. They have neither mouth nor intestine. See Tapeworm. [Written also Cestoda.]

on of the body of the adult earthworm, consisting of several united segments modified for reproductive purposes.

A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoöspores.

A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores.

A fish; the dace. See Dace. Dart sac (Zoöl.), a sac connected with the reproductive organs of land snails, which contains a dart, or arrowlike structure.

Sexually reproductive. Digenous reproduction. (Biol.) Same as Digenesis.

The quality or condition of having strong reproductive powers; generation with full fertility between different species or races, specif. between hybrids of the first generation.

A plant which produces only that kind of reproductive organs which are capable of developing into fruit after impregnation or fertilization; a pistillate plant.

An appendage of the reproductive apparatus of the snail.

The collective organs by which a plant produces its fruit, or seeds, or reproductive spores.

That stage of growth or development in an organism, in which the reproductive elements are generated and matured in preparation for propagating the species.

One of the reproductive spores of algæ.

A reproductive bud of a hydroid; a simple gonophore.

The reproductive zooids of a hydroid colony, collectively.

the spermatophores, becomes detached from the male, and attaches itself to the female for reproductive purposes.

The power of producing two kinds of reproductive bodies, as in Amphicarpæa, in which besides the usual pods, there are others underground.