noun
- plural of archegonium; female reproductive organs in mosses, ferns, and other non-flowering plants that contain the egg cell
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The botanist examined the archegonia under a microscope to study their structure.
- Archegonia develop on the female gametophyte of ferns.
- Water is necessary for sperm to swim to the archegonia during fertilization.
- The moss displayed mature archegonia ready for reproduction.
- Students learned to identify archegonia in their plant biology lab.
- Each archegonium contains a single egg cell within the archegonia cluster.