Definition of Sporocysts

1. Noun. (plural of sporocyst) ¹

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Definition of Sporocysts

1. sporocyst [n] - See also: sporocyst

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sporocysts

sporing
sporinite
sporinites
sporinitic
spork
sporked
sporking
sporks
sporo-
sporoagglutination
sporoblast
sporoblasts
sporocarp
sporocarps
sporocysts (current term)
sporocyte
sporocytes
sporodochium
sporogeneses
sporogenesis
sporogenetic
sporogenic
sporogenous
sporogonia
sporogonic
sporogonies
sporogonium

Literary usage of Sporocysts

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

1. Biological Bulletin by Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, Mass.) (1915)
"As they lay free in the sea water the sporocysts were for the most part white, or bluish translucent white. In some of them there were varying amounts of ..."

2. Protozoölogy by Gary Nathan Calkins (1909)
"sporocysts. Here, if we were to be strictly consistent, we would advise, with Minchin, ... sporocysts absent, the sporozoites being naked in the parent cell ..."

3. Protozoölogy by Gary Nathan Calkins (1909)
"From the walls of these rings tubular ingrowths next develop and grow down into the brood chamber among the sporocysts (Fig. 8I). ... 64) the sporocysts are ..."

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