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oophore
oophore Bot. (ˈəʊəfɔə(r)) [f. Gr. {wlenisisub}ό-ν egg + -ϕόρος bearing, bearer.] That stage, or form of a plant, in the higher Cryptogams (ferns, mosses, etc.) which, in the alternation of generations, bears male and female organs; the ‘sexual generation’; also called oophyte. Opposed to sporophore ...
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apospory
apospory Bot. (əˈpɒspərɪ) [f. apo- + Gr. σπόρος seed + -y3.] Absence or suppression of spores where they are normally produced, as in certain ferns, mosses, and other cryptogams in which the sexual organism (prothallus in ferns, etc., or perfect plant in mosses) is developed directly from the sporan...
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apogamy
apogamy Bot. (əˈpɒgəmɪ) [f. Gr. ἀπό apo- + γάµος marriage (cf. gamo-).] Absence of sexual reproduction; asexual reproduction, agamogenesis; spec. in ferns and other cryptogams, production of the perfect plant directly from a bud on the prothallus instead of by the usual sexual process. So apogamic (...
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oo-
oo- (əʊəʊ) before a vowel o-, combining form of Gr. {wlenisisub}όν egg, ovum, used in various scientific terms, chiefly biological. (See the more important of these in their alphabetical places.) ooblast (ˈəʊəblæst) [Gr. βλαστός germ], ‘the primordial cell which develops into an ovule’ (Syd. Soc. Le...
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