oosphere
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The sexual generation is a small green thalloid structure called a prothallium, which bears antheridia and archegonia, each archegonium having a neck-canal and oosphere, which is fertilized just as in the moss.
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
Guided by the synergidae one male-cell passes into the oosphere with which it fuses, the two nuclei uniting, while the other fuses with the definitive nucleus, or, as it is also called, the endosperm nucleus.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various
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
These are of the ordinary type of those organs, namely, a broad lower portion, containing a naked oosphere and a long narrow neck with a central canal leading to the oosphere.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various
