oosphere
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In Coleochæte, the male cell is a round spermatozoid, and the female cell an oosphere contained in the base of a cell which is elongated into an open and hair-like tube called the trichogyne.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various
The protoplasm in one of these protuberances arranges itself into a round mass--the oosphere or female cell.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various
The oogonia, unlike the Peronosporaceae, contain more than one oosphere.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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
We thus have a process of “multiple fertilization”; the oosphere really represents a large number of undifferentiated gametes and has been termed a coenogamete.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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