oosphere
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Mycelium present, antheridia with antherozoids, oogonium with single oosphere: Monoblepharidaceae.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
The subsequent behavior of the pollen cell, its division and its fertilization of the germinal vesicle or oosphere, leave no doubt as to its analogy with the microspore of vascular cryptogams.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various
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 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
Down this canal pass one or more antherozoids, which become absorbed into the oosphere, and this then secretes a wall, and from it grows the second or asexual generation.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 531, March 6, 1886 by Various