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zoospore


  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Zoospore  \Zo"["o]*spore\,  n.  [Zo["o]-  +  spore.] 
  1.  (Bot.)  A  spore  provided  with  one  or  more  slender  cilia,  by 
  the  vibration  of  which  it  swims  in  the  water.  Zo["o]spores 
  are  produced  by  many  green,  and  by  some  olive-brown, 
  alg[ae].  In  certain  species  they  are  divided  into  the 
  larger  macrozo["o]spores  and  the  smaller 
  microzo["o]spores.  Called  also  {sporozoid},  and 
  {swarmspore}. 
 
  2.  (Zo["o]l.)  See  {Swarmspore}. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Swarmspore  \Swarm"spore`\,  n. 
  1.  (Bot.)  One  of  innumerable  minute,  motile,  reproductive 
  bodies,  produced  asexually  by  certain  alg[ae]  and  fungi;  a 
  zo["o]spore. 
 
  2.  (Zo["o]l.)  One  of  the  minute  flagellate  germs  produced  by 
  the  sporulation  of  a  protozoan;  --  called  also 
  {zo["o]spore}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  zoospore 
  n  :  an  asexual  spore  of  some  algae  and  fungi  that  moves  by  means 
  of  flagella 




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