Definition of Oophare
O"ö*phore (?), n. [Gr. &?; egg-
bearing; w,'o`n an egg + &?; to bear.] (Bot.)
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 oöphore is a minute prothallus;
in mosses it is the leafy plant.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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