oospore

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After a period of rest, the contents of the oospore break up into a number of zoospores like those already described, each of which, after a period of activity, germinates in the ordinary way.

From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Huxley, Thomas Henry

Two separate portions of its protoplasm become fused together, surround themselves with a thick coat and give rise to a sort of vegetable egg called an oospore.

From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Huxley, Thomas Henry

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)

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