Assertion: moss's sporophyte | /r/HasProperty | short-lived
Facets:
value: very
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: The spore-bearing sporophytes (i.e. the diploid multicellular generation) are short-lived and dependent on the gametophyte for water supply and nutrition.
text: When the sporophyte is still very short it is enclosed within a protective sheath (an involucre) but the sporophyte grows through it, leaving a cylindrical remnant around the sporophyte's base.
text: The sporophyte is relatively short-lived, and consists almost entirely of a shiny green, spherical spore capsule that becomes black with spores.
text: The spore-bearing sporophytes (i.e. the diploid multicellular generation) are short-lived and dependent on the gametophyte for water supply and nutrition.