单词 | zoospore |
释义 | zoosporen. Biology. A motile flagellate spore, as produced by certain algae, fungi, and protozoans. Cf. zoosperm n. 2.macrozoospore, megazoospore, microzoospore, zygozoospore: see the first element.Numerous zoosporic organisms are pathogens causing disease in economically significant plant and animal species. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [noun] > spore sporule1819 zoocarp1824 zoospore1842 propagule1858 swarm-spore1859 macrozoospore1875 zygozoospore1881 swarm-cell1882 sporangiospore1889 planospore1904 planont1914 the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > spore or sporule > [noun] > type of > zoospore or zoosporangium zoospore1842 zoosporangium1862 zoosporangiophore1889 1842 Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist. 10 341 What may be the purpose served in the œconomy of the plant by this motion of zoospores? 1858 E. Lankester & W. B. Carpenter Veg. Physiol. (new ed.) §767 For the propagation of their kind,..the Confervæ have two different modes; the one being the liberation of moving particles, termed zoospores, from the interior of the cells. 1890 Jrnl. N.Y. Microsc. Soc. 6 70 The..zoospores..have swarmed, and escaped, or been emitted from their sporangium, or generative sac. 1948 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 35 247/1 The zoospores may also be unusually large. 1987 R. L. Fletcher Seaweeds Brit. Isles III. i. 36 For the great majority of algae the spores, often referred to as zoospores or swarmers, are motile. 2010 Cornish Guardian (Nexis) 14 July 46 You only need a few zoospores to reach potato tubers to suffer significant and damaging blight infections. Derivatives zooˈsporous adj. producing zoospores; of the nature of, or effected by zoospores; = zoosporic adj. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > reproductive substances or cells > [adjective] > spore formalc1400 sporular1819 zoosporous1845 zoosporic1854 polysporous1858 polyspored1882 sporulating1897 sporulated1898 polyzoic1901 zygosporic1906 polyspore1959 propagular1967 1845 A. H. Hassall Hist. Brit. Freshwater Algæ I. 25 The contents of the undoubted zoosporous Algæ are.., for the most part, fluid. 1859 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. V. 212/2 The occurrence of zoosporous reproduction under the most simple conditions. 1975 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 62 349/1 Somatic nuclear divisions in aquatic zoosporous fungi. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1842 |
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