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Definition of Oosphere
1. Noun. A gamete; used especially of lower plants.
Definition of Oosphere
1. Noun. (botany) A large nonmotile egg cell formed in an oogonium and ready for fertilization ¹
2. Noun. (alternative spelling of oosphere) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Oosphere
1. an unfertilized egg within an oogonium [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oosphere
Literary usage of Oosphere
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger (1889)
"By turning the preparation in such way that the spermatozoids, avoiding the light,
come into contact with the oosphere, we can determine that even those ..."
2. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"The protoplasm of the apical cell of the carpogonium has therefore become
transformed into an oosphere. The five enveloping tubes are from the first in ..."
3. Journal of Applied Microscopy by Bausch & Lomb Optical Company (1900)
"11-15, 1899- , . . , oosphere containing several or many functional sexual nuclei.
The development of the oogonium and antheridium, the details of oogenesis ..."
4. A Course on Practical Elementary Biology by John Bidgood (1893)
"The oosphere completely fills the envelope. It is at first filled with homogeneous
... The ripening of the oosphere takes place usually at the same time as ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"The gradual reduction can be traced through the Gymnosperms. (0) The male cell
is amorphous and passes directly from the pollen-tube into the oosphere ..."
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