Definition of oospore

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Oospore (n.) A fertilized oosphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.

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Zoosporic :: Zoosporic (a.) Of or pertaining to zoospores; of the nature of zoospores.
Swarmspore :: Swarmspore (n.) One of innumerable minute, motile, reproductive bodies, produced asexually by certain algae and fungi; a zoospore..
Fucoid :: Fucoid (a.) Properly, belonging to an order of alga: (Fucoideae) which are blackish in color, and produce oospores which are not fertilized until they have escaped from the conceptacle. The common rockweeds and the gulfweed (Sargassum) are fucoid in character..
Rejuvenescence :: Rejuvenescence (n.) A method of cell formation in which the entire protoplasm of an old cell escapes by rupture of the cell wall, and then develops a new cell wall. It is seen sometimes in the formation of zoospores, etc..
Oosporangium :: Oosporangium (n.) An oogonium; also, a case containing oval or rounded spores of some other kind than oospores..
Conidium :: Conidium (n.) A peculiar kind of reproductive cell found in certain fungi, and often containing zoospores..
Swart :: Swarmspore (n.) One of the minute flagellate germs produced by the sporulation of a protozoan; -- called also zoospore.
Zoospore :: Zoospore (n.) A spore provided with one or more slender cilia, by the vibration of which it swims in the water. Zoospores are produced by many green, and by some olive-brown, algae. In certain species they are divided into the larger macrozoospores and the smaller microzoospores. Called also sporozoid, and swarmspore..
Sporran :: Sporozoid (n.) Same as Zoospore.
Zoospore :: Zoospore (n.) See Swarmspore.
Zoosporangium :: Zoosporangium (n.) A spore, or conceptacle containing zoospores..
Oospore :: Oospore (n.) A fertilized oosphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.
Apogamy :: Apogamy (n.) The formation of a bud in place of a fertilized ovule or oospore.
Macrozoospore :: Macrozoospore (n.) A large motile spore having four vibratile cilia; -- found in certain green algae.
Zygospore :: Zygospore (n.) A spore formed by the union of several zoospores; -- called also zygozoospore.
Microzoospore :: Microzoospore (n.) A small motile spore furnished with two vibratile cilia, found in certain green algae..
Oospore :: Oospore (n.) A special kind of spore resulting from the fertilization of an oosphere by antherozoids.
Oosporic :: Oosporic (a.) Of or pertaining to an oospore.
Phaeospore :: Phaeospore (n.) A brownish zoospore, characteristic of an order (Phaeosporeae) of dark green or olive-colored algae..
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