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)

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.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 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 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

Moreover, as in the Peronospora, conjugation may take place and result in an oospore; the contents of which divide and are set free as monadiform germs.

From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Huxley, Thomas Henry