oophore
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📖 中文释义
- n. <废>=oophyte
📘 English Definition（英文释义）
- n. 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.