adjective
- of or relating to plants that produce archegonia (female reproductive organs), especially bryophytes and pteridophytes
Usage: botanical; technical
Examples
- Mosses are archegoniate plants that require water for sexual reproduction.
- The archegoniate lineage includes ferns and liverworts.
- Archegoniate plants have a distinct alternation of generations.
- Unlike seed plants, archegoniate species produce motile sperm cells.
- The evolution of archegoniate plants represents an important stage in land colonization.