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Webster 1913 Edition
Zoospore
Zo′o-spore
,Noun.
[
Zoo-
+ spore
.] 1.
(Bot.)
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
.