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Oospore

O′o-spore

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Noun.
[Gr.
ω,ὄν
an egg + [GREEK] a seed.]
(Bot.)
(a)
A special kind of spore resulting from the fertilization of an oosphere by antherozoids.
(b)
A fertilized oosphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.

Definition 2024


oospore

oospore

See also: oöspore

English

Noun

oospore (plural oospores)

  1. (biology) A fertilized female zygote, having thick chitinous walls, that develops from a fertilized oosphere in some algae and fungi

Italian

Noun

oospore f

  1. plural of oospora