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before a vowel o-, combining form of Gr. ᾠόν egg, ovum, used in various scientific terms, chiefly biological. (See the more important of these in their alphabetical places.) ooblast |ˈəʊəblæst| [Gr. βλαστός germ], ‘the primordial cell which develops into an ovule’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.); hence ooˈblastic a. oocyan |ˌəʊəʊˈsaɪən| [Gr. κύανος a dark-blue mineral], a blue pigment occurring in the shells of birds' eggs. oœcium |əʊˈiːsɪəm| [Gr. οἰκίον a little house], a bud-like sac in which the ova are received and fertilized in certain Polyzoa; hence oˈœcial a. oogenesis |ˌəʊəʊˈdʒɛnɪsɪs| [genesis], the production or development of an ovum; so oogenetic |ˌəʊəʊdʒɪˈnɛtɪk| a., pertaining to oogenesis. oogeny |əʊˈɒdʒɪnɪ| = oogenesis. oograph |ˈəʊəgrɑːf, -æ-| [-graph], a mechanical device for tracing accurately the outline of a bird's egg. oometer |əʊˈɒmɪtə(r)| [-meter], a mechanical device for taking exact measurements of eggs; so oometric |ˌəʊəʊˈmɛtrɪk| a., pertaining to an oometer, or to oˈometry, the measurement of eggs. oophyte |ˈəʊəfaɪt| [Gr. ϕυτόν plant] = oophore. oorhodeine |ˌəʊəʊˈrəʊdiːaɪn| [Gr. ῥόδον rose], a reddish pigment found in the shells of most birds' eggs. ooscopy |əʊˈɒskəpɪ| [Gr. ὠοσκοπία], inspection of or divination from eggs. oostegite |əʊˈɒstɪdʒaɪt| [Gr. στέγειν to cover: see -ite1 3], an egg-case in some Crustacea, formed by an expansion of the limbs of certain somites; hence oostegitic |əʊˌɒstɪˈdʒɪtɪk| a. ‖ ootheca |əʊəʊˈθiːkə| [Gr. θήκη case, receptacle], an egg-case in certain invertebrate animals; also, formerly, a sporangium in ferns; hence ooˈthecal a. ootype |ˈəʊətaɪp| [Gr. τύπος impression, type], a dilated portion of the oviduct in some Trematode worms, in which the egg is fertilized and provided with a shell. ooxanthine |əʊɒkˈsænθaɪn, əʊəʊˈzænθaɪn| [Gr. ξανθός yellow], a yellow pigment occurring in the shells of birds' eggs.
1875Sorby in Proc. Zool. Soc. 355 *Oocyan..is..often associated with yellow substances..therefore the solution is of a somewhat green-blue colour. 1875Newton in Encycl. Brit. III. 774 Some chemical relation between the oocyans and the bile.
1881G. Busk in Jrnl. Microsc. Sc. Jan. 3 The *oœcium is sub-globular and affixed to the upper and outer border of the zoœcium.
1892Syd. Soc. Lex., *Oögenesis ..*Oögeny. 1925R. E. Snodgrass Anat. & Physiol. Honeybee xii. 270 The process [of development] in the case of the egg cells involves oogenesis and maturation. 1960New Biol. XXXI. 94 The process of oogenesis must not predetermine the post-fertilization history of the egg. 1974L. B. Arey Developmental Anat. (ed. 7 rev.) iii. 31 The word ‘egg’ or ‘ovum’ is often used when referring to any stage in the course of differentiation of the female sex cell during oögenesis.
1895D. Sharp in Cambr. Nat. Hist. V. xxii. 500 Some hypothetic rudiments they [sc. Weismann and others] consider to exist at the very earliest stage of the embryonic, or *oogenetic process.
1886Athenæum 25 Dec. 867/1 The correlative growths may assume the characters of the *oophyte or prothallus. 1895tr. Kerner's Nat. Hist. Plants II. 476 In the Fern, two stages are well shown in the life-cycle, (1) the prothallium, the sexual generation or oophyte, and (2) the fern-plant, the asexual generation (or sporophyte).
1875Sorby in Proc. Zool. Soc. 354 *Oorhodeine..occurs..in the shells of such a great number of eggs that its entire absence is exceptional. 1875Newton in Encycl. Brit. III. 774/2 Inclined to think that oorhodeine is in some way or other closely related to cruentine.
1727Bailey vol. II, *Ooscopy, predictions made from Eggs.
1877Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. vi. 366 The eggs of the ordinary Edriophthalmia usually undergo their development in the chamber beneath the thorax enclosed by the *oostegites of the thoracic appendages.
1851–6Woodward Mollusca 136 Spawn (*ootheca) vermiform, thick, semicircular.
1888Rolleston & Jackson Forms Anim. Life 649 In the monogenetic [Trematoda] its [the egg's] shape varies, and is determined by that of the ‘*ootype’.
1875Sorby in Proc. Zool. Soc. 356 Emu-eggs..are of a fine malachite green colour, due to a mixture of yellow *ooxanthine with oocyan. Ibid. 357 Rufous ooxanthine..differs from yellow ooxanthine in absorbing light to a..greater distance from the blue end. |