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oospore Bot.|ˈəʊəspɔə(r)|
[f. Gr. ᾠό-ν egg + σπόρος seed, spore.]
The fertilized female cell or oosphere, esp. in the lower Cryptogams, which forms the germ of a future plant.
1865Cooke Rust, Smut, etc. 131 After this contact of the two bodies, the gonosphere acquires a new name, and is called an ‘oospore’. 1882Vines Sachs' Bot. 235 The size of the antherozoids is so inconsiderable that they scarcely add..to the mass of the oosphere, but yet produce a change in it, one consequence of which is that it becomes invested with a firm cell-wall, and then constitutes the Oospore.
Hence ooˈsporic, oˈosporous adjs., having or producing oospores; ˌoospoˈriferous a., bearing oospores. |