"Oophore" is a word in ENGLISH
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.
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Having no seed lobes, as the dodder; also applied to plants which have no true seeds, as ferns, mosses, etc.
Read the complete definitionThe spore cases or conceptacles of flowerless plants, as of ferns, mosses, algae, etc., with the spores contained in them.
Read the complete definitionA slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or …
Read the complete definitionA class of flowerless plants, embracing ferns, horsetails, club mosses, quillworts, and other like plants. See the Note under Cryptogamia.
Read the complete definitionThat alternately produced form of certain cryptogamous plants, as ferns, mosses, and the like, which is nonsexual, but produces spores …
Read the complete definitionDesignating, or pertaining to, a kind of glass inclosure for keeping ferns, mosses, etc., or for transporting growing plants from …
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