| oospere | 1. <botany> An unfertilized, rounded mass of protoplasm, produced in an oogonium. After being fertilized by the access of antherozoids it becomes covered with a cell wall and develops into an oospore, which may grow into a new plant like the parent. 2. <botany> An analogous mass of protoplasm in the ovule of a flowering plant; an embryonic vesicle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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