2. Noun. (plural of oöphyte cap=t) ¹
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Definition of Oophytes
1. oophyte [n] - See also: oophyte
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oophytes
Literary usage of Oophytes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annals of Botany by IDEAL (Project) (1888)
"in a less degree, it may be imagined that the oophytes of present Vascular
Cryptogams may actually be a much more reduced type of sexual generation than ..."
2. A Text-book of Biology: Comprising Vegetable and Animal Morphology and by James Richard Ainsworth Davis (1888)
"These germinate and give rise to oophytes, but not directly. The seta and wall
of the capsule can also, if detached and kept damp, ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1851)
"In the history of organic beings, commencing with /oophytes, (by which I include
all spontaneous generations of animalcules, ..."
4. Essay on the Theory of the Earth by Georges Cuvier, Robert Jameson (1827)
"Nothing, certainly ; and the solid /oophytes are in no degree capable of being
compared with the testaceous mollusca, with reference to the materials which ..."
5. The Microscope and its revelations by William Benjamin Carpenter (1881)
"1) of our own coasts,! found attached to Sea-weeds and /oophytes ; this is a
minute spiral shell, of which the interior forms a continuous tube not divided ..."
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