oospore
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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 Thomas Henry Huxley
Reproduction from an oospore formed by the combination of two sexual cells.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 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 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
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
