Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany: One of the unilocular zoösporangia of certain fucoid algæ (Phæosporeæ): a name originally given by Thuret, recently not much used. Compare
trichosporangium . - noun Same as
oöphoridium .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) An oögonium; also, a case containing oval or rounded spores of some other kind than oöspores.
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- noun botany An
oogonium . - noun botany A
case containingoval orrounded spores of some other kind thanoospores .
Etymologies
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Latin, from Ancient Greek.
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