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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as oöphore.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (collectively termed oöphytes or Oöphyta), which have their sexual reproduction accomplished by motile antherozoids acting on oöspheres, either while included in their oögonia or after exclusion.

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  • noun obsolete, biology gametophyte

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oo- + -phyte

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