oospore

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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)

This oospore, or resting spore, may remain dormant in this state within the tissues of the foster plant for some months.

From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by Cooke, M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt)

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.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various

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)

The oospore on germination usually gives origin to a zoosporangium, but may form directly a germ tube which infects the host.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various