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Oophore

O′o-phore

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Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK] egg-bearing;
ω,ὄν
an egg +
φέρειν
to bear.]
(Bot.)
An alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the
sporophore
, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. In ferns the oophore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant.

Definition 2024


oophore

oophore

See also: oöphore

English

Noun

oophore (plural oophores)

  1. (biology) A form of some ferns and mosses that bear sexual fruit

French

Etymology

oo- + -phore

Noun

oophore m (plural oophores)

  1. oophore