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)

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 Huxley, Thomas Henry

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

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)

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