OOSPORE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oospore mean? 

• OOSPORE (noun)
  The noun OOSPORE has 1 sense:

1. a thick-walled sexual spore that develops from a fertilized oosphere in some algae and fungi

  Familiarity information: OOSPORE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OOSPORE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("oospore" is a kind of...):

spore (a small usually single-celled asexual reproductive body produced by many nonflowering plants and fungi and some bacteria and protozoans and that are capable of developing into a new individual without sexual fusion)