oospore
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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
Reproduction from an oospore formed by the combination of two sexual cells.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various
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 Thomas Henry Huxley
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 M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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
