oocyst
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editoocyst (plural oocysts)
- (mycology, archaic) A reproductive cell in certain fungi. [from 19th c.]
- (biology) A thick-walled spore in the lifecycle of some parasitic protozoans that develops into sporozoite. [from 20th c.]
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, page 453:
- Ross had found in the stomach wall of an Anopheles mosquito the oocysts (eggs) which are the intermediate stage of the Plasmodium life cycle.