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- 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.