ˈspōrəˌkärp, -pȯr-, -kȧp noun
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Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary spor- + Greek karpos fruit — more at harvest
: any structure in or on which spores are produced: as
a. : a multicellular body that develops from a fertilized archicarp or procarp of a red alga and produces asexual carpospores : cystocarp
b. : a many-celled body (as an ascocarp) producing spores in a fungus
c. : the sporogonium of a moss
d. : an organized mass of sporangia in a fern ally of the families Salviniaceae and Marsileaceae