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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 spo·ro·phore /ˈsporəˌfor, ˈspɔrəˌfɔr/
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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Medical Dictionary 英漢醫學字典

 spo·ro·phore /ˈsporəˌfo(ə)r, ˈspɔrəˌfɔ(ə)r/ 名詞

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Spo·ro·phore n.  Bot. (a) A placenta. (b) That alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless numbers. In ferns it is the leafy plant, in mosses the capsule.  Cf. Oophore.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 sporophore
      n : a spore-bearing branch or organ: the part of the thallus of
          a sporophyte that develops spores; in ferns and mosses
          and liverworts is practically equivalent to the
          sporophyte