Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A thick-walled zygote developed from a fertilized oosphere, especially in an oomycete.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, in cryptogamic plants, the immediate product of the fertilization of the oösphere.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A special kind of spore resulting from the fertilization of an oösphere by antherozoids.
- noun A fertilized oösphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun biology A fertilized female
zygote , having thickchitinous walls, that develops from a fertilizedoosphere in somealgae andfungi
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a thick-walled sexual spore that develops from a fertilized oosphere in some algae and fungi
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Last one there's a rotten egg, and as if being a moldy oospore weren't enough, they'll also miss out on a potentially rich stream of revenue from the portable video-palooza.
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Last one there's a rotten egg, and as if being a moldy oospore weren't enough, they'll also miss out on a potentially rich stream of revenue from the portable video-palooza.
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Its brilliant hue has faded and changed to a reddish brown, but after a rest of about three months (according to Pringsheim, who seems to be the only one who has ever followed the process of oospore formation entirely through), the spore suddenly assumes its original vivid hue and germinates into a young
Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Various
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After the production of this oospore the parent filament gradually loses its vitality and slowly decays.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Various
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But the asexual generation derived from the oospore only for a short while remains in connection with the prothallium, which, of course, answers to the leafy portion of the moss.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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After impregnation the fertilized oosphere immediately surrounds itself with a cell-wall and becomes the oospore which by a process of growth forms the embryo of the new plant.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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After being thus fertilized the contents of the sporangium acquire a peculiar oily appearance, of a beautiful emerald color, an exceedingly tough but transparent envelope is secreted, and thus is constituted the fully developed oospore, the beginner of a new generation of the plant.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 Various
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Reproduction from an oospore formed by the combination of two sexual cells.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 Various
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The elutant was centrifugated at 3000 rpm for 10 min to pellet the oospores. β-glucuronidase was added to the oospore and water suspension to a final concentration of 2000 U / ml.
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From the union of the protoplasm of the last two, there results in each case a single oospore.
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