oospore

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Reproduction from an oospore formed by the combination of two sexual cells.

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

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

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

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

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