2. Noun. (plural of oösphere cap=t) ¹
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Definition of Oospheres
1. oosphere [n] - See also: oosphere
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oospheres
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. ..."