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Oolongs
- noun - Chinese tea leaves that have been partially fermented before being dried
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
Poaceae
- noun - the grasses: chiefly herbaceous but some woody plants including cereals; bamboo; reeds; sugar cane
Poached
- verb - cook in a simmering liquid; "poached apricots"
- cooked in hot water
- hunt illegally; "people are poaching elephants for their ivory"