Oospore

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Oospore \O"o*spore\, n. [Gr. w,'o`n an egg + ? a seed.] (Bot.)
     (a) A special kind of spore resulting from the fertilization
         of an oosphere by antherozoids.
     (b) A fertilized oosphere in the ovule of a flowering plant.
         [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  oospore
       n : a thick-walled sexual spore that develops from a fertilized
           oosphere in some algae and fungi