ˈsporocyst
[f. sporo- + cyst n. So F. sporocyste.]
1. Zool. A cyst or capsule containing spores, forming a stage in the development of Trematodes, etc.
| 1861 Hulme tr. Moquin-Tandon ii. vii. xiii. 392 The Echinococci are worms which are enclosed in very variable numbers in a membranous cyst (sporocyst). 1877 Huxley Anat. Inv. Anim. iv. 209 There is, therefore, a very close resemblance between this cestoid embryo and the sporocyst of a Trematode. 1888 Rolleston & Jackson Anim. Life 651 The Sporocyst possesses the power..of multiplying either by transverse fission,..or by gemmation. |
2. Bot. (See quot.)
| 1866 Treas. Bot. 1088/2 Sporocyst, the spore-case of algals. |