oosporangium

English

Alternative forms

oösporangium

Etymology

Noun

oosporangium (plural oosporangia)

(botany) An oogonium.
(botany) A case containing oval or rounded spores of some other kind than oospores.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “oosporangium”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)