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Oophore
- - 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.
Oophyte
- - Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (collectively termed oophytes or Oophyta), which have their sexual reproduction accomplished by motile antherozoids acting on oospheres, either while included in their oogonia or after exclusion.
Oosperm
- - The ovum, after fusion with the spermatozoon in impregnation.
Oospore
- noun - a thick-walled sexual spore that develops from a fertilized oosphere in some algae and fungi
Ootheca
- - An egg case, especially those of many kinds of mollusks, and of some insects, as the cockroach. Cf. Ooecium.
Ooziest
- adjective - leaking out slowly
Oozings
- noun - the process of seeping
Opacify
- verb - become opaque; "the tissue in the eye's cornea may opacify and the patient may go blind"
- make opaque; "The glass was opacified more greater privacy"
Opacity
- noun - incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning
- the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of electromagnetic radiation
- the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which something reduces the passage of light