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Oophore :: Oophore (n.) An alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which bears antheridia and archegonia, and so has sexual fructification, as contrasted with the sporophore, which is nonsexual, but produces spores in countless number. In ferns the oophore is a minute prothallus; in mosses it is the leafy plant..

Microsporic :: Microsporic (a.) Of or pertaining to microspores.

Athalamous :: Athalamous (a.) Not furnished with shields or beds for the spores, as the thallus of certain lichens..

Sporiferous :: Sporidium (n.) A spore.

Perispore :: Perispore (n.) The outer covering of a spore.

Melanosperm :: Melanosperm (n.) An alga of any kind that produces blackish spores, or seed dust. The melanosperms include the rockweeds and all kinds of kelp..

Epispore :: Epispore (n.) The thickish outer coat of certain spores.

Angiocarpous :: Angiocarpous (a.) Having the seeds or spores covered, as in certain lichens..

Oogonium :: Oogonium (n.) A special cell in certain cryptogamous plants containing oospheres, as in the rockweeds (Fucus), and the orders Vaucherieae and Peronosporeae..

Nemathecium :: Nemathecium (n.) A peculiar kind of fructification on certain red algae, consisting of an external mass of filaments at length separating into tetraspores..

Ring :: Ring (n.) An elastic band partly or wholly encircling the spore cases of ferns. See Illust. of Sporangium.

Cystocarp :: Cystocarp (n.) A minute vesicle in a red seaweed, which contains the reproductive spores..

Phaeospore :: Phaeospore (n.) A brownish zoospore, characteristic of an order (Phaeosporeae) of dark green or olive-colored algae..

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