‖ oosporangium Bot.
(ˌəʊəʊspɒˈrændʒɪəm)
Also in anglicized form ˈoospoˌrange.
[f. oo- + sporangium.]
a. Thuret's term for the unilocular zoosporangium of certain fucoid Algæ (Phæosporeæ). b. Sometimes used as = oophoridium. c. A case or sac containing an oospore.
| 1857 Berkeley Cryptog. Bot. §67. 88 In other cases, doubtless, two kinds of Zoospores are produced, as in Leathesia and Mesoglœa, as they have the two organs called Oosporangia and Trichosporangia by Thuret. 1867 J. Hogg Microsc. ii. i. 273 Section of a lacinia of a frond, showing the stalked eight-chambered oosporanges growing on tufts with intercalated hairs. 1870 Bentley Man. Bot. (ed. 2) 365 Commonly called oosporangia or oophoridia. 1874 Cooke Fungi 173. |