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- English Word Oophore Definition An alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. In ferns the oophore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant.
- English Word Oophorectomy Definition Ovariotomy.
- English Word Oophoric Definition Having the nature of, or belonging to, an oophore.
- English Word Oophorida Definition of Oophoridium
- English Word Oophoridium Definition The macrosporangium or case for the larger kind of spores in heterosporous flowerless plants.
- English Word Oophoridiums Definition of Oophoridium
- English Word Oophoritis Definition Ovaritis.
- English Word Oophyte Definition Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (collectively termed oophytes or Oophyta), which have their sexual reproduction accomplished by motile antherozoids acting on oospheres, either while included in their oogonia or after exclusion.
- English Word Oophytic Definition Of or pertaining to an oophyte.
- English Word Oorial Definition A wild, bearded sheep inhabiting the Ladakh mountains. It is reddish brown, with a dark beard from the chin to the chest.
- English Word Oospere Definition An unfertilized, rounded mass of protoplasm, produced in an oogonium.
- English Word Oospere Definition An analogous mass of protoplasm in the ovule of a flowering plant; an embryonic vesicle.
- English Word Oosperm Definition The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoon in impregnation.
- English Word Oosporangia Definition of Oosporangium
- English Word Oosporangium Definition An oogonium; also, a case containing oval or rounded spores of some other kind than oospores.
- English Word Oosporangiums Definition of Oosporangium
- English Word Oospore Definition A special kind of spore resulting from the fertilization of an oosphere by antherozoids.
- English Word Oospore Definition A fertilized oosphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.
- English Word Oosporic Definition Of or pertaining to an oospore.
- English Word Oostegite Definition One of the plates which in some Crustacea inclose a cavity wherein the eggs are hatched.
- English Word Ootheca Definition An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. Ooecium.
- English Word Oothecae Definition of Ootheca
- English Word Ootocoid Definition A half oviparous, or an oviparous, mammal; a marsupial or monotreme.
- English Word Ootooid Definition Alt. of Ootocoid
- English Word Ootype Definition The part of the oviduct of certain trematode worms in which the ova are completed and furnished with a shell.
- English Word Ooze Definition Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure.
- English Word Ooze Definition Soft flow; spring.
- English Word Ooze Definition The liquor of a tan vat.
- English Word Ooze Definition To flow gently; to percolate, as a liquid through the pores of a substance or through small openings.
- English Word Ooze Definition Fig.: To leak (out) or escape slowly; as, the secret oozed out; his courage oozed out.