oophoridium

English

Etymology

See oo- (“egg”) and -phore (“bearer”).

Noun

oophoridium (plural oophoridia)

(botany) The macrosporangium or case for the larger kind of spore in heterosporous flowerless plants.

Translations

the macrosporangium or case for the larger kind of spore in heterosporous flowerless plants

French: oophoridie (fr) f

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “oophoridium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)