Definition of Oospheres

1. Noun. (plural of oosphere) ¹

2. Noun. (plural of oösphere cap=t) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Oospheres

1. oosphere [n] - See also: oosphere

Lexicographical Neighbors of Oospheres

oorial
oorials
oorie
oorier
ooriest
oos
oose
ooses
oosier
oosiest
oosome
oospere
oosphere
oospheres (current term)
oosporangia
oosporangium
oospore
oospores
oosporic
oostegite
oostegites
oosterboschite
oosy
oot
ootheca
oothecae
oothecal
ootid

Literary usage of Oospheres

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

1. An Introduction to the Study of Seaweeds by George Robert Milne Murray (1895)
"... more or less localised on the thallus, the oospheres being enormously greater in volume ... while the oospheres are typically eight in each oogonium. ..."

2. Fecundation in Plants by David Myers Mottier (1904)
"631) are transferred to vessels containing healthy oospheres they at once congregate around them, and attaching themselves to the periphery of the eggs, ..."

3. Torreya by Torrey Botanical Club (1911)
"Decaisne and Thuret, in a paper published in 1845, were pioneers in a comparative study of the number of oospheres to an oogonium in the ..."

4. Handbook of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger, William Hillhouse (1900)
"After complete division, the brown colour is uniformly distributed through the contents of the oospheres. If the section has passed through the point of ..."

5. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1900)
"He concludes this chapter by maintaining " that the oospheres of ... He suggests that a study of the nuclei in the oospheres of ..."

6. Botany for High Schools and Colleges by Charles Edwin Bessey (1880)
"commencement of the escape of the oospheres—the outer wall, a, of the oogonium has burst, the inner, i, is ready to open. ..."

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