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2. Noun. (alternative spelling of oophyte) ¹

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Definition of Oophyte

1. a stage of development in certain plants [n -S] : OOPHYTIC [adj]

Medical Definition of Oophyte

1. 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. This class was at first called Oosporeae, and is made to include all algae and fungi which have this kind of reproduction, however they may differ in all other respects, the contrasted classes of Thallophytes being Protophytes, Zygophytes, and Carpophytes. The whole system has its earnest advocates, but is rejected by many botanists. See Carpophyte. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oophyte

Literary usage of Oophyte

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Course of Practical Instruction in Botany by Frederick Orpen Bower (1891)
"B.—MICROSCOPIC INVESTIGATION oophyte Generation II. Cut transverse sections of a mature stem of Polytrichum: mount some in glycerine, ..."

2. An Introduction to Structural Botany by Dukinfield Henry Scott (1904)
"DEVELOPMENT AND STRUCTURE OF THE SEXUAL GENERATION (oophyte) 1. THE PROTHALLUS On the whole, the sexual generation of the Horsetails is much like that of ..."

3. Practical Botany for Beginners by Frederick Orpen Bower (1894)
"B.—THE GAMETOPHYTE, OR oophyte. I. Dry some of the leaves of the Male Fern, which bear sori, on a piece of paper : the spores will then be set free by the ..."

4. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"oophyte nearly always dorsi-ventral; either thalloid or leafy. ... The oophyte generation in the first three families is a branched, ribbon-like, ..."

5. A Textbook of Elementary Biology by Robert John Harvey-Gibson (1889)
"That bearing the ovum is known as the oophyte, that bearing the spore as the ... The oophyte and the sporophyte therefore correspond to our thallus and ..."

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