2. Noun. (alternative spelling of oogonium) ¹
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Definition of Oogonium
1. a female sexual organ in certain algae and fungi [n -NIA or -NIUMS] : OOGONIAL [adj]
Medical Definition of Oogonium
1. Female sexual structure in certain algae and fungi, containing one or more gametes. After fertilization the oogonium contains the oospore. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Oogonium
| oogametes oogamies oogamous oogeneses oogenesis oogenetic oogenic oogenies oogeny oogle | oogone oogones oogonia oogonial oogoniums ooh ooh-ah-ah ooh ah ah oohed oohing | oohs ooid ooidal ooids oojamaflip oojamaflips ook |
Literary usage of Oogonium
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Practical Botany for the Botanical Laboratory and Private Student by Eduard Strasburger, William Hillhouse (1900)
"The oogonium is sessile on the thread, the antheridium terminates a short ...
If an oogonium is observed at the moment of its origin, it will be seen that ..."
2. Text-book of Botany, Morphological and Physiological by Julius Sachs (1882)
"Even before the contents of the oogonium have broken up into ... 179, C) may be
observed on the oogonium ; at these spots Pringsheim states that the inner ..."
3. Elementary Botany by George Francis Atkinson (1898)
"oogonium.—The oogonia are short branches also, but they become large and . ...
Vaucheria sessilis ; oogonium opening and emitting a bit of protoplasm ..."
4. Fecundation in Plants by David Myers Mottier (1904)
"As soon as the oogonium has attained a length equal to two or three times its
... Frequently, before the young oogonium is delimited by the cross-wall, ..."
5. Sexual Reproduction and the Organization of the Nucleus in Certain Mildews by Robert Almer Harper (1905)
"The oogonium and the antheridial branch seem to arise simultaneously, ...
The oogonium is thicker and heavier from the start and grows in length more ..."
6. The Transactions of the Microscopical Society of London by Microscopical Society of London (1867)
"... barrel-shaped or elliptic, mostly in an uninterrupted terminal series, though
occasionally interstitial; the terminal oogonium the oldest in a series, ..."
7. Memoirs of the Torrey Botanical Club by Torrey Botanical Club (1902)
"One of these branches swells to an oval-oblong shape, and becomes the oogonium.
The other lengthens slightly, and applies itself closely to the side of the ..."
8. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"(л) The male organ ¡s an antheridium giving rise to one or more free-swimming
ciliated spermatozoïde: (1) The oogonium contains a single ..."
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