oospore
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The product of the union of an antherozoid and an oosphere is termed an oospore.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various
The oospore becomes an oosporangium, and from it at least a hundred germinating bodies are at length expelled.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
Its extremity never opens, and we never find antherozoids; on the contrary, the antheridium presents, up to the maturity of the oospore, the appearance which it presented at the moment of fecundation.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)
Reproduction from an oospore formed by the combination of two sexual cells.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various
After the production of this oospore the parent filament gradually loses its vitality and slowly decays.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 by Various
