oospore
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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
This oospore, or resting spore, may remain dormant in this state within the tissues of the foster plant for some months.
From Fungi: Their Nature and Uses by M. C. (Mordecai Cubitt) Cooke
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 Thomas Henry Huxley
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
Moreover, as in the Peronospora, conjugation may take place and result in an oospore; the contents of which divide and are set free as monadiform germs.
From Discourses Biological and Geological Essays by Thomas Henry Huxley
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